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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by holografix on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:01PM (#25665722)
How would you stop the app from retaining your date once they have access to it?
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:42PM (#25666153)
You can revoke access to buckets (to stay in the S3 comparison).
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by holografix on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:05PM (#25694100)
But what if in reading the data the apps didn’t also make their own copy and store in their servers?
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