Stories like this remind us why being mindful of protecting one's privacy online is important and that "private" messages in the majority of places aren't private at all without end-to-end encryption.
Be mindful of what sensitive data you're relinquishing to companies.
@TiffyBelle Also remember that even if you think whatever you're posting online is fine. Laws will change, and you will change. The corporation you trusted that post with, will still have it. And they'll do whatever they feel like doing with it. You're nothing more than an ant to them.
@TiffyBelle It’s odd because people are behaving as if the authorities came to an admin that they wouldn’t do the same thing. There’s nothing that makes the Fediverse exempt from this
@dame You're absolutely right. Protecting one's privacy extends to the Fediverse as well, where there's also no E2EE for Direct Messages. This isn't a problem exclusive to Meta/big tech.
@TiffyBelle And if that's not reason enough to demand :fediverse: instances to sign the #FediPact and universally ban and defederate anything #NSAbook touches then IDK what else would be...
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And yet my timeline is full of self-identified left wing users that are trying out Threads.
Don't say anything to Threads that you wouldn't say to the police. Everything you say on threads will be indexed, archived, and processed by AI so that it can be sold to governments and corporations that view you in an adversarial manner. Same can be said for Twitter.
@TiffyBelle I am glad I left Facebook. They REFUSED to let me use my legally changed name and demanded I upload IRL photos of myself or my account would be deactivated. That's when I ended it. It is a hostile site and I don't trust anything that comes from them.
@TiffyBelle I’m no Meta fan, but this is literally a case in which they had to choice it to turn it over. Why they had it in the first place is the question of the day.
@TiffyBelle and yet apparently, according to so many mastodon.social members, we should ‘wait and see’ if #Threads acts badly before moving to defederate.
Almost like some of them were in on the payout from the beginning or something. Shurely not???
@TiffyBelle my partner and I teach our teen kids if you don't want someone reading it don't put it in digital writing.
Like, if something you're thinking of writing could blow up in your face if the wrong person sees it don't write it. Don't even let it sit in a draft. Ever.
@TiffyBelle "meant making end-to-end encryption (E2EE) the default in Facebook Messenger. This would have meant that police would have had to gain access to the pair’s phones directly to read their chats. (E2EE is available in Messenger but has to be toggled on manually. It’s on by default in WhatsApp."
I would avoid facebook messenger, but if you do enable e2e encryption.
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