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So you are implying at the end that it is better that your secrets (“telemetry”) go to your local agencies and to possible relatives or family who work on Gmail
by rvnx 1y ago
So you are implying at the end that it is better that your secrets (“telemetry”) go to your local agencies and to possible relatives or family who work on Gmail, Uber, etc ?
- cuuupid 1y agoYes, naturally I trust my own elected government, or possible relatives/family, far more than I trust a foreign adversary
- adam_hn 1y agoI'm sorry but why? Your government can use this data to actually hurt you and put you on the no-fly list, or even put you in prison. But a foreign government is limited to what it can do to you if you are not a very high-value target. So I try as much as possible to use software and services from a non-friendly government because this is the highest guarantee that my data will not be used against me in the future. And since we can all agree that any data that is collected will end up with the government some way or another. Using forging software is the only real guarantee. Unless the software is open source and its server is self-hosted, it should be considered Spyware.
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