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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Closi on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:54AM (#25670433)
It’s the same as WhatsApp in some extent - always promised that they wouldn’t give up your data while they gained traction and then get acquired by Facebook and get forced to.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by evgen on Thursday January 07, 2021 @11:27AM (#25673072)
No, it is not the same. Signal is a registered 501.3(c) non-profit with a public board and cannot just decide to sell themselves and your metadata at some future point. Signal is also making ongoing improvements to protocols and apps to limit the amount of metadata that must be collected or that can be usefully held.
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Re:WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebo... by Closi on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:29AM (#25682465)
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. Thanks for correcting me.
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