schizoidman@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square52linkfedilinkarrow-up1307arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldeurope@feddit.org
arrow-up1306arrow-down1external-linkThe EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agendawww.techradar.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square52linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldeurope@feddit.org
minus-squareohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down22·11 months agojust don’t use whatsapp? problem solved! #returntoemail
minus-squareGodort@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·11 months agoRight attitude, wrong solution. Email is very much not private
minus-squareRiQuY@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoThen go tell that to all of your WhatsApp contacts, people won’t change apps.
minus-squareeleitl@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoI have zero such contacts. For the moment, I tolerate Signal. When it falls I’ll switch to self-hosted Matrix.
minus-squareohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agobut that’s the beaury of email! people don’t need to be on the same app to communicate with each other! that arbitrary walled-off garden of whatsapp doesn’t hamper anyone here!
minus-squareRiQuY@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 months agoOf course there are alternatives, that’s not the main problem, it’s the adoption by people not familiar or interested in tech. https://activitypub.rocks/
minus-squareTranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·11 months agoI’m not touching an app owned by Meta. If people want to message me, they can use Signal. Turns out, this policy has weeded out lots of useless conversations from my life. So, I see it as a win.
minus-squareUndertaker@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoeMail is affected as well. There is no alternative. And mails are not private if not all participants use end to end encryption
minus-squareISOmorph@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·11 months agoOf course there are alternatives. That’s the cherry on top of this crap pile: only regular non tech folks are affected. Nerds and actual criminals will just run an xmpp or simplex server and not care about the legislation.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoStop fear mongering, of course there is alternatives
just don’t use whatsapp? problem solved!
#returntoemail
Right attitude, wrong solution.
Email is very much not private
Then go tell that to all of your WhatsApp contacts, people won’t change apps.
I have zero such contacts. For the moment, I tolerate Signal. When it falls I’ll switch to self-hosted Matrix.
but that’s the beaury of email! people don’t need to be on the same app to communicate with each other!
that arbitrary walled-off garden of whatsapp doesn’t hamper anyone here!
Of course there are alternatives, that’s not the main problem, it’s the adoption by people not familiar or interested in tech.
https://activitypub.rocks/
I’m not touching an app owned by Meta. If people want to message me, they can use Signal.
Turns out, this policy has weeded out lots of useless conversations from my life. So, I see it as a win.
eMail is affected as well. There is no alternative. And mails are not private if not all participants use end to end encryption
Of course there are alternatives. That’s the cherry on top of this crap pile: only regular non tech folks are affected. Nerds and actual criminals will just run an xmpp or simplex server and not care about the legislation.
Stop fear mongering, of course there is alternatives
Email is unencrypted.
Not if you use pgp
Or Proton/Tuta.
It will not E2EE for you.