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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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Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list? (euroweeklynews.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by pylapp@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought making calls and sending SMS was one of the least secure things you could do regarding communication? That secure and encrypted communication with messaging apps was the only way.

Now we have nothing. 😐

[–] dontblink@feddit.it 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At least if you just do phone calls the attack surface is reduced... They can scan your calls maybe, but not your entire chat history with all of your contacts and give it to an AI which could profile you based on that + you are not scanned on everything else you do on your phone / locked into proprietary ecosystems.

The ideal would just be using a Linux platform and using something like xmpp, but who are you gonna convince to use it? People use what they are used to use, if it's not popular messaging apps is phone calls.. And now it seems a more private alternative..