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  • Elise
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    24 months ago

    Well they did pay an ungodly amount of money for a freaking chat program.

      • lemmyvore
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        34 months ago

        Don’t sell it short, it probably collects the gist of the chats too.

        • मुक्त
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          34 months ago

          Don’t be paranoid. They scans our chats against problematic keywords to find out bad guys, and metadata helps law enforcement in catching these bad guys. /s