Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org

Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by meruru on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:30PM (#20180401)

I was pretty disappointed when I learned one of my contacts on Matrix was receiving my messages on his Gmail. That's a feature I would rather the client to not even have so people don't accidentally enable it. I hope it won't take too long for a more privacy-oriented client than Riot to appear. The best thing right now is MiniVector, which is a stripped down Riot fork with fewer permissions required: https://github.com/LiMium/mini-vector-android

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by stevenicr on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:31AM (#20188835)

Interesting concern - I'm thinking I'd like the various clients to alert me back - as a message sender that the messages were being auto forwarded to a non secure place like gmail - of course I think the option to turn off notifications should be possible on both ends.

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by meruru on Saturday June 15, 2019 @03:58PM (#20191780)

That's a good idea. The important thing I think is to create a culture of privacy-preservation around the whole Matrix ecosystem so that features like that make it to the various clients.

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by masterfooo on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:51PM (#20187317)

The issue with that app is that there is no voice chat :(

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by meruru on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:26PM (#20187481)

I don't use voice chat, so to me that's a good thing, but if you need that feature the full Riot client is probably the better option.

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by ugqtq on Friday June 14, 2019 @06:50AM (#20181924)

You were pretty disappointed when you learnt that recipients of your messages can do whatever they want with them? And your solution is to remove the feature altogether?

How about removing the ability to copy text? Or the ability to take screenshots?

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by meruru on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:18PM (#20185303)

I was disappointed the program wasn't designed to nudge users towards more privacy-conserving behavior.

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Re:Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org by antpls on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:44PM (#20192357)

I think the point of the parent is that removing forward to email would only give you a false sense of privacy, as there are several other ways to record received messages.

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