In 2025, Google gave Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.

Samsung is retiring its SMS messenger and suggesting Google Message as an alternative.

FUCK NO!! I ain’t giving a way for the government to get everything without a warrant. Google is a collaborator, and it can eat shit!

  • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Instead of thinking of people in two groups, dumb normies and the group you are in, why not try thinking of them as, in the know and not yet in the know. For instance, there was a time when you weren’t in the know about Proton.me, and someone explained it to you, because that’s the way we make big changes in the world, by gathering numbers. The more people that we can get on the, in the know, side, the more power in our numbers we can use.

    So, when you find someone who doesn’t know, sell the thing to them with a couple of well worded sentences. Things like, if you really care about your privacy, you use applications that are privacy friendly, for now. Like…fill in blanks.

    If you can’t think what to say, ask yourself why you use it.

    • someone@lemmy.today
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      5 days ago

      That reasoning is a lot like saying a fish in the ocean is just a ballerina waiting to happen. No one can teach the religious anything until they stop being fantasy prone.