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WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

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Re: WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

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Post by cookiengineer »

seanieb wrote: post #133
cookiengineer wrote: post #125

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... and Telegram FOSS [1] fixes all of the mentioned points? [1] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

E2EE is in Telegram is disabled by default. Also, look at the jurisdictions Telegram operates from. Sketchy would be an understatement.

While I agree that the Arab Emirates are suboptimal at best, you have to be fair and mention that the previous countries Telegram operated in all wanted the encryption keys. Including Germany, France and Switzerland.

Not many options to be neutral in the spying game if the EU is ruled out.

Re: WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

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Post by user-the-name »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #206
user-the-name wrote: post #176

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No, because, and this is very crucial: I don't trust you.

sounds like you did not understand that this was rhetorical?

I understood that perfectly, and I pointed out to you that your rhetorical argument is invalid.

Re: WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

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Post by antihero »

f1refly wrote: post #179
antihero wrote: post #149

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Is there a way to sign up to it which is as simple for tech-illiterate people as WhatsApp/Signal? I recall the last few times I, a developer, have tried to functionally use any sort of XMPP based thing it has been a confusing and inconsistent experience.

That's exactly what quicksy.im is for, it's a build flavor of conversations that uses the users phone number as jabber id with auto discovery

Can't see an App Store link :(

Re: WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

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Post by f1refly »

antihero wrote: post #243
f1refly wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's exactly what quicksy.im is for, it's a build flavor of conversations that uses the users phone number as jabber id with auto discovery

Can't see an App Store link :(

Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...
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