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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

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In case anyone is looking for evidence of why the 'we value your privacy' promises of proprietary platforms are inherently empty, and can't be trusted ...

"Meta servers download every shared file in Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM in full—even if it’s gigabytes in size ... Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down."

@mysk

https://mastodon.social/@mysk/114859726176255816

#privacy#DataFarming#Meta#InstaGram#YouTube

@1br0wn

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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

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As a bonus, smoking gun evidence that proprietary platforms don't really care about freedom of expression when it matters, despite their handwaving about "free speech" when it suits them;

@mysk
> Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down. YouTube removed one video and gave us a strike

They don't care about freedom of the press, so we must.

#FreeSpeech#FreedomOfExpression

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