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Re:Links sent privately through Facebook Messenger can be re... by chillacy on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:08PM (#11878520)
While catching child predators and murderers is a good thing, I can't help but consider that if facebook operated in china, they'd be catching political dissidents, or if facebook operated in uganda, they'd be catching homosexual users.
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Re:Links sent privately through Facebook Messenger can be re... by donatj on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:33PM (#11881299)
Exactly. Ideally the communication should be encrypted in a way such that Facebook couldn't decrypt it if they wanted to.
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