Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany

Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by wolfgke on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:43PM (#12590935)

> Can you square that circle for me and explain what you're doing to be an activist while eschewing the social sphere?

I don't eschew the social sphere, but I strongly lack charisma/am socially rather clumsy and rather the kind of person who has difficulties forming friendships, thus I'm not very social.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by eropple on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:15PM (#12592228)

OK--so how are you, as you define it, an "activist"? Activism, to my mind, requires social interaction and engagement. I'm curious as to what I'm missing.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by type0 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @05:23PM (#12593349)

There's plenty of "activists" trying to develop encrypted messaging systems, blogging about privacy rights etc, and they are not all that social.

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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User... by reitanqild on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @03:55PM (#12592559)

Let me help here:

There is a whole lot you can do without one-to-one social face-to-face interaction and engagement.

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