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Analyzing patterns of communication

jeudi 23 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Facebook plans to make WhatsApp analyze patterns of communication to learn about what people are doing and identify activities.

This could apply to any sort of activities, including those which are crimes (but those which are truly bad, and those which should be lawful, such as sharing copies of copyrighted works), and those which are lawful and Facebook has no right to know about.

Saving conversation unencrypted

jeudi 23 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Whatsapp invites anyone you talk with through that program to save the conversation on Apple servers — and that is not encrypted.

Investigating atrocities

mercredi 22 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Australian "elite" troops committed atrocities in Afghanistan. Now that the public knows this, the government is investigating and considering punishing those responsible.

What a contrast with the way the US covers up such atrocities.

In the Vietnam War, the US did prosecute an atrocity, the My Lai massacre.

New French pun

mercredi 22 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Renommé pour ses réponses autocontradictoires.

New vigor to protests

mercredi 22 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Just as the energy in Portland's protests was fading, attacks by the wrecker's federal thugs have brought them new vigor.