Subj : Re: the Parle alternative
To : Shitty
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Jan 13 2021 04:33 pm
Sh> I found out what my wife's complaint is about: she said WhatsApp changed
Sh> theirprivacy policy and now they will share their users phone numbers
Sh> withaffiliates.
If I understood it correctly, its a little deeper than that. Whatsapp will now
be sharing your telephone number AND metadata across any app/service that
Facebook owns.
This means tracking, purchasing histories and much more.
It's kind of a big deal, IMO. Just [much] more of the same, that we've come to
know of FB and Google and Amazon's of the world... between those and Apple, I
just don't know how safe it is to USE those services anymore. Literally.
I was gonna say 'use them a lot' but... even light use sure does dig up yer ass
something fierce.
This is NOT what the internet was created to DO - and in fact, the inventor of
'the internet' is pitching a new idea/way of doing things. I wish I were a REAL
computer fanatic and could post an article talking about that right now.. but I
don't have it here. :P
It was an interesting podcast point, tho... and he want's to design a new way
for developers and users of 'the internet' to do things and have it be separate
from the current 'internet'.
