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> This is good and too little, too late. Tech giants have become more powerful than most governments, and that is a net negative for society. > In short: suck

> This is good and too little, too late. Tech giants have become more powerful than most governments, and that is a net negative for society. > In short: suck it up big tech; please go harder governments. Meanwhile EU is trying to undermine security of all citizens and Meta is promoting it. ‘ProtectEU’ security strategy: a step further towards a digital dystopian future https://edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step-further-towards-a-digital-dystopian-future/ https://edri.org/our-work/protecteu-security-strategy-a-step... WhatsApp Goes All In on Privacy with ‘Not Even WhatsApp’ Campaign https://the420.in/whatsapp-not-even-whatsapp-privacy-campaign-end-to-end-encryption-aamir-khan/ https://the420.in/whatsapp-not-even-whatsapp-privacy-campaig...

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
Meanwhile, “we kill people based on metadata” means it hardly matters that the message payload is encrypted. Who you are messaging and when is sold to commercial actors and given to the US government if they ask for it lawfully. The privacy stuff is typical PR and marketing. They say it’s good for privacy because that’s what people want to hear. After the Snowden leak revelations and CryptoAG, it seems incredibly naive to look at any mass-communication platform from a US company with anything short of suspicion. The only question is whether or not there is somehow a backdoor for the actual encrypted message but US intelligence doesn’t really need that, anyway.
camillomiller 1y ago
>Meanwhile EU is trying to undermine security of all citizens and Meta is promoting it. The EU is a complex political body. Parts of it are trying that, lobbied by a toxic American big tech corporation. A corporation that carelessly enabled genocide in Myanmar, btw, so it won’t certainly have any qualms about steering a foreign political body towards its own goals.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago

Meanwhile, “we kill people based on metadata” means it hardly matters that the message payload is encrypted. Who you are messaging and when is sold to commercial actors and given to the US government if they ask for it lawfully. The privacy stuff is typical PR and marketing. They say it’s good for privacy because that’s what people want to hear. After the Snowden leak revelations and CryptoAG, it seems incredibly naive to look at any mass-communication platform from a US company with anything short of suspicion. The only question is whether or not there is somehow a backdoor for the actual encrypted message but US intelligence doesn’t really need that, anyway.

camillomiller 1y ago

>Meanwhile EU is trying to undermine security of all citizens and Meta is promoting it. The EU is a complex political body. Parts of it are trying that, lobbied by a toxic American big tech corporation. A corporation that carelessly enabled genocide in Myanmar, btw, so it won’t certainly have any qualms about steering a foreign political body towards its own goals.