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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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How can I discourage my dad to install Telegram? (feddit.it)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by dontblink@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's about the fact that you HAVE TO trust them to not read your plaintext messages, not see your private photos, whereas Signal is open source (ok both server and client side) and end to end encrypted so you don't really have to trust anyone.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I understand your point and I support & contribute to FOSS. But I was specifically addressing the claim that Telegram reads all messages and sells them to the highest bidder. They don't currently, unless someone can point me towards a credible source