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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.

If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Snapchat is not owned by Meta

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

tangent, but:

and yet Facebook still snooped on Snapchat via MITM attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not owned by meta yet