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Meta found liable in child exploitation case (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by staircase@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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... while they feign child protection to avoid costs

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Because you think they are conspiracies with goals to spy on you?

[–] msage@programming.dev 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because we KNOW they do.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The victims of child exploitation? Or the lawyers representing them? Or..? I’m not asking about vague general “save the children” stuff. I’m talking about this lawsuit and similar.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

They just established legal precident of e2ee as "harmful to minors"

[–] obre@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not the person you were responding to, but IMO it's the defense attorneys / legal department working to ensure that the legal outcome is as beneficial to the corporations as possible, even if they "lose". In this case the fine is a cost of doing business, not nearly enough to actually discourage malfeasance and the legal/ PR pivot to blaming encryption rather than their algorithms is something they hope will tee them up to be able to do even more massive surveillance in the near future.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Spy on all of us, actually. And they're openly nazis now