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[-] Willoughby@piefed.world 28 points 1 week ago

Meta to stop pretending your messages were ever encrypted-

[-] amzd@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/

Curious coincidence that when it seems to become illegal to scan private chats they make their chats less private

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

if you don't hold the keys it is not truly encrypted

[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Don't want the peasant used to privacy.

Signal signups go brrr!

[-] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 1 week ago

As if that would change anything.

[-] Smackyroon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago
[-] teaHead74@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Is anyone who really cares abut encryption, security, and privacy actually using Instagram and co. fr?

this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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