• bigFab@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Actually, isn’t this a win for big tech companies? The gvt can’t surveil us, but Whatsapp can use and sell big data.

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      1 year ago

      this does not affect Google, Meta or any other Big Tech at all. This law was trying to break encryption or do some sort of client side scanning. And it didn’t got approved.

      This does not force Google or Meta to encrypt your chats if they weren’t doing so. Or to remove their own backdoors in the encryption if they had them. It’s just a law that was not passed. So your comment does not make any sense.

      PS: it’s not like Google or Meta care too much about encrypting the contents. They’ll happily take your metadata which is super valuable. This is what Meta does with WhatsApp.