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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda (www.techradar.com)

submitted 4 months ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can also choose to use technologies that aren’t such resource hogs. The eventual consistency model of Matrix alone & storage costs causud many medium-sized operations to shut their doors. Distroot.org for instance had to move to XMPP to deal with costs—& I have personally seen others.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

While storage is my main concern (my VPS is very limited in this regard), there is also the fact that you can very well end up with nasty materials stored on your server without a convenient way to delete it. Even if you don't let strangers have accounts on your server.