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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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Me Buying A Phone From Google Solely Because I Can Put GrapheneOS On It (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by BladeFederation@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

As far as I'm aware Moxie Marlinspike made the encryption before it was acquired by Facebook. One of the founders of WhatsApp now finances Marlinspike'd Signal messenger.

In theory Meta only sees who you communicate with, but not what you communicate.

(I wouldn't be surprised if the bastards are trying to undo the encryption if they already haven't.)

[–] noodlejetski@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

before it was acquired by Facebook

not that it really matters, but it was a few years after the acquisition.