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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by kelnos on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:36PM (#40711943)
> I think that Zuckerberg is one of the few big tech CEOs that still has principles

"Still"? I'm not aware of a time when he's publicly shown any sort of principles.

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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by diego_sandoval on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:50PM (#40712077)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36187028

Google or Microsoft would just give up data of their users at the first request to avoid a ban.

Sure, Meta can't * do it because of E2E, but that alone is much better than what Google does.

* without pushing a malicious update.

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Re:EU to greenlight Chat Control tomorrow by londons_explore on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @04:02AM (#40715223)
> * without pushing a malicious update.

And I believe that is exactly what the court was demanding they do. Push an update to uncloak the users that the court determines should lose their privacy.

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