For years now, there has been some concern about the coziness between technology companies and the government. Whether a company complies with casual government requests for data, requires a warrant, or even fights overly-broad warrants has been a canary in the digital coal mine during an era where...
  • sunzu2
    20•1 month ago

    The authoritarian regime is gaining power via alliance with mega corps…

    Normie still got nothing to hide 🤡

      • sunzu2
        3•1 month ago

        The camps are for the undesirables!!!

        I am very much in the club 🤡

        • @Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
          8•1 month ago

          ? eff has international reach and the article applies everywhere. it was clearly intentionally written to apply anywhere. your comment makes no sense.

            • @Umbrias@beehaw.orgEnglish
              6•1 month ago

              it is certainly spurred by the developing situation in the us and has examples from it, but otherwise nothing applie only to the us. and the us finalizing it going to shit effects you anywhere in the world.

  • Da Cap’nEnglish
    5•1 month ago

    I like the EFF, but I’m very suspicious of them claiming any meta apps provide actual encryption. I assume their “encryption “ is simply show.

      • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1•1 month ago

        I think their point is that E2EE’s protection starts at one end, and ends at the other, and the ends themselves are not particularly trustable

    • @Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•22 days ago

      I for some reason recall at one point WhatsApp’s encryption was actually an audited implementation of Signal’s encryption. But that is so long ago that I doubt that holds much weight now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • @thatonecoder@lemmy.caEnglish
        2•12 days ago

        Even it they (WhatsApp) still provide reliable E2EE, they have lots of metadata that is not encrypted, and that they actively share with their “advertising partners”.