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Re:A thought experiment: Deface, a decentralized Facebook by lazzlazzlazz on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:42AM (#11860861)
How is giving Snapchat all of your geodata, detailed facial recognition data, etc. an improvement on privacy? Unless you're using a very specific and confused concept of privacy.
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Re:A thought experiment: Deface, a decentralized Facebook by Fej on Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:11PM (#11872427)
It's "privacy" in the sense that it's nominally shielded from people you don't explicitly message, not Snapchat itself or nation-state actors.

Not that it really shields from anyone, since people regularly take screenshots of Snapchats and share them.

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