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A comment on Facebook: We don’t need your consent. Parent comment

Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by buboard on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:13PM (#21586615)
we could switch to VK. try it, it's fast, and has a ton of pirated movies.
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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:49PM (#21587063)
Yeah, and a comrade major from the FSB has easy and unlimited access to all your conversations and data

A vast majority of political prosecutions for online extremism in Russia were carried out using info that VK subserviently provided to police and special services.

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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by buboard on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:56PM (#21587152)
yeah i was being ironic.

As for access, i assume there are server farms on quite a few countries looking for all kinds of patterns in chats. Until E2E encryption becomes extensively spread, it 's a joke to pretend there 's some kind of user privacy

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Re:Facebook: We don’t need your consent by Andrew_nenakhov on Saturday November 23, 2019 @03:28PM (#21616326)
If you run your own XMPP server (can be done dirt cheap now), you don't really need e2ee and all the problems that come bundled with it.
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