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All these people asking “can my husband find out who i voted for?” — yet we’re still supposedly having a debate about messenger software giving people “too much privacy”
2024-11-01 18:40:01+00:00
It’s true: the “voting” question is at the top of Google’s autosuggest list, presumably because of the harm that Donald Trump presents to women’s rights — notably but not exclusively related to sexual health and abortion.
Yet Civil Society — US and other — is willing to entertain the potential concept that people have too much privacy in their conversation, as evidenced by a recent report from All Tech Is Human, once again due to the matter of children:
In offering end-to-end security to all users the platforms may be providing systemic, pervasive, unnecessary, even excessive privacy – “too much privacy” – to too many people, a situation which may consequently hamper legislative opportunities (and some civil society goals) to impose a duty of care upon platforms, such as an obligation upon Meta (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.) to monitor the content of our children’s communications in order to keep them safer, online.
May the sanctity of the voting booth shine a light upon their minds.
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