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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by zanderwohl on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:54AM (#38300074)
> I sure as hell would never beg them to migrate to Whatsapp of all things.

In many places, most people wouldn't. But Europeans (and some others) seem eager to BCC all their texts to Mark Zuckerberg for some reason.

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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by chimeracoder on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:11AM (#38300160)
> In many places, most people wouldn't. But Europeans (and some others) seem eager to BCC all their texts to Mark Zuckerberg for some reason.

There is zero evidence that Facebook is engaging in passive mass surveillance of WhatsApp messages.

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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by bigfudge on Friday November 17, 2023 @03:01AM (#38300791)
Does that mean your prior for whether it’s happening is strongly against? That seems irrational given the history of both meta and the tech industry and govt generally.
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