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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by esperent on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:35PM (#25666981)
Even my mother, in her 70s, who somehow always manages to have a new virus or piece of crapware on her laptop every time I visit, knows about the importance of this thing called "privacy" and had no trouble grasping the idea that everything she shares on FB is recorded and used for advertising.

It's not a hard concept, and it's not just tech people who care about it. It doesn't require any knowledge of tech to understand.

On the other hand, she knows how to use FB messenger and my efforts to get her to switch to email/telegram have just caused confusion so far.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by dvtrn on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:57PM (#25667121)
Am I off the mark in guessing your mother, in her 70’s has some strong opinions about one Senator Joe McCarthy or Hoover? Has she ever spoken much about living through that period-assuming your family are American?

My apologies for the imposition if that’s not the case.

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by dvtrn on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:15PM (#25673866)
I'm going to guess the downvotes are from people who don't know the history of people like McCarthy or Hoover's FBI and why someone who was lived through that era might be sensitive to and have opinions about topics of privacy[0][1]?

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/j-edgar-hoover-would-ha...

[1] https://journals.openedition.org/diacronie/4823

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by esperent on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:05PM (#25675652)
Not American, no idea who Joe McMarthy is, and I doubt my mother does either.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by sthnblllII on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:41PM (#25667344)
J Edger Hoover was a cross dressing homosexual who collected blackmail on political opponents while he was himself being blackmailed by organized crime.

https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=j+edgar+hoover+blackmail

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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by LordDragonfang on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:25AM (#25668218)
Most of the search results on that page are pretty sketchy, the top result is a tripod site and one is literally a school paper.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by sthnblllII on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:09PM (#25680578)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-j-e...

They call everything "a myth" and then cite strong circumstantial and testimonial evidence that those "myths" are true, only to dismiss everything with hand waving about how "we'll never know" what his extremely private and mysterious sex life was like. Give me a break.

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