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‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app (youtu.be)

submitted 4 months ago by doodledup@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Keineanung@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing its not fully open source, but I don't actually know.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The App is open source, but they include google push services, which is not

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is fully open-source. The distribution of the application is completely unrelated. You can still read the code and verify the build you're running.

[–] Keineanung@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.