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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Let me guess, the group chat is WhatsApp or iMessage, so Facebook or Apple gets to see them too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

And their " legitimate partners"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not even close—it’s Skype! We aren’t able to teach a 98yo great grandma to use something else from overseas, so Microsoft gets the cake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Well its better that posting it publicly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Whatsapp is E2E encrypted isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But the app is closed source, so you can't know that Facebook isn't intercepting it at either end.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Exactly, both end points are blackboxes compromised by Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

"Encrypted"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Isn't the option to backup whatsapp data to Gdrive encrypted opt-in?