• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    They still know your name, phone number, relationships, and every piece of info ever supplied to or from you in a text message going back as far as it is recorded on every phone which has ever downloaded the app. Your mother, your brother, your sister, your ex.

    It’s a cruel and terrible world for those who aren’t ignorant.

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      22 hours ago

      They still know your name, phone number, relationships, and every piece of info ever supplied to or from you in a text message going back as far as it is recorded on every phone which has ever downloaded the app.

      Only because they bought the info off Microsoft, Facebook, and Google.

      It’s a cruel and terrible world for those who aren’t ignorant.

      At some point, being terminally anxious over the idea that a Chinese bureaucrat has access to a stack of high school yearbooks does nothing of benefit. There’s a long term material benefit to simply staying off social media (particularly the bigger instances) in a few rare but critical circumstances (getting a high security job, avoiding being hassled by the police). But for virtually everyone else, none of this shit matters.