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Apple is likely to stop providing its encrypted cloud service to U.K. users

I currently use Telegram for my friends and family, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the UK Government is either reaching agreement for backdoors with messaging services, or is trying its hardest to.

I’m also on Element/Matrix. Before I try to get my contacts to join me on there, should I be aware of any privacy issues or is that a good place to head?

  • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Signal’s default, well-supported installations use Google services

    Signal only uses FCM for notifications, with a fallback mechanism (WebSockets) being available in all builds of the app, as well as Google Maps for location sharing (which most people probably don’t use anyway).

    so unless you’re an extremely atypical user, those services are present on most of your contacts’ devices

    Google Play services being present on people’s devices has nothing to do with Signal including the library. They are present on almost every Android device, because Google pressures OEMs to include them and grant them system level privileges.

    Let’s also remember that E2EE doesn’t protect the endpionts

    Yeah, but that’s the case with EVERY messenger app, so I really don’t know what your point is here?