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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School (www.gadgetreview.com)
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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[–] 58 points 2 months ago (13 children)

One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Bonus points for one that does not even have your personal information e.g. Session.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    +1 for session
    also matrix....

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Add Delta Chat, Briar and Cwtch to that list!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Jamil has entered the chat. P2P with E2EE, so you only ever need some internet connection to stay in touch, no servers to be taken down.

    The only problem is that it'll eat your phone's battery like chrome eats RAM

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