Subj : the Parle alternative
To : Shitty
From : Ogg
Date : Sun Jan 17 2021 06:40 pm
Hello Shitty!
** On Monday 11.01.21 - 22:13, Shitty wrote to Arelor:
S> My wife told me that she's boycotting WhatsApp, due to some
S> privacy issue that I don't understand, and she's trying to
S> get all her friends to switch to some other system -
S> Telegram I think.
S> But I don't know what the big deal is. If big tech wants to
S> spy on our internet calls, why not just let them?
Oh.. that's the old "if not doing anything bad, then nothing to
hide" argument.
Everyone has *something* to hide or to be ashamed of.
A good presentation of "what the big deal is" and "why not let
them" is in this TED talk:
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
https://youtu.be/pcSlowAhvUk
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