When my mother got breast cancer, my Facebook page suddenly filled up with ads for laetrile and quack clinics across the border in Mexico. Even though I know better, I might have grasped at straws had it come to that. Thankfully it didn't, but I love my mother and Facebook was happy to sell that vulnerability to advertisers.
And the thing is, I had never posted about it. My two sisters had used the chat feature to discuss it, and FB made the connection.
That was the moment that privacy and encryption became important to me. Most encryption services have probably been infiltrated by the feds to some degree, and I can live with that. It's the corporations I want to hide from.
Most encryption services have probably been infiltrated by the feds to some degree, and I can live with that. It’s the corporations I want to hide from.
France has recently started going after people who organize demonstrations.
They have had zero problems getting big social media and even Discord to give up information about people.
But some chat apps were safe from the governments, so why do you think the Telegram CEO was arrested?
Recently? Maybe i'm wrong, but i remember a 2 years old news telling that france was pursuing allowing the police to spy on rioter's phones.... I remember it was not long after the "end" of the yellow jacket's riots, so maybe it's even older.
I get the feeling this thing, I mean, the add targeting is far stronger in the USA (maybe also in europe) than in the rest of the world. My "add targeting" is idiotic. I once was in brazil (argentinian here!). And got adds in portuguese for a year or so. I was a month planning on buying a computer, with all that that involves (google searchs, looking for prices on internet) and i never got an add until i actually bought everything, then it was 2 months of adds recommending me to buy the exact same components i already bought.
As today, half of my adds are in german. Jokes on them, i use them to learn.