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 commercia

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.