this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2024
731 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

60087 readers
2731 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
731
Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
234 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

they make clear to you that Facebook can and will have some metadata, but not the contents of the chat itself.

You thought you're safe and private when the content is encrypted? LOL, no. Metadata are much more useful to Facebook, and to the intelligence services.

“We Kill People Based on Metadata.” -- General Michael Hayden, former Director of NSA and CIA

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My point isn't that metadata isn't useful for them, there's no need to be condescending about things I never said.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My point is metadata should be protected as content does. While IM platform needs to know which message should be delived to whom, they don't need that after being delivered, nor have it profiled.