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Meta is killing end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs soon (9to5google.com)
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[–] amzd@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-chat-control-vote-in-the-eu-parliament-meps-vote-to-end-untargeted-mass-scanning-of-private-chats/

Curious coincidence that when it seems to become illegal to scan private chats they make their chats less private