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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is E... by whatshisface on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @11:56AM (#19798325)
>Focusing on adding e2e encryption for messaging services serves as a nice deflector for FB's privacy issues.

Although it's not all that's desired, it's something. After all don't forget that entities much less legal than Facebook are after your data (like the NSA).

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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg Preaches Privacy, but Evidence Is E... by gfodor on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:02PM (#19799169)
imho e2e encryption is going to quickly become table stakes for any kind of internet based communications tool. it's well on its way with the publication of the protocols used in Signal and the various open source implementations available of it.
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