cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/41641719

Keystrokes? Screen recordings? Camera and microphone spying? Assuming an average person who’s not actively targeted by an intelligence agency.

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    Since they are closed source, we can’t know. We can find out that messages are being sent at certain moments, but not what data is being contained in the messages, communications carrying this sort of data are always encrypted (for obvious reasons).

    For legal reasons they often include some vague allusion in the terms of service about collecting information… but they are never very clear on what data exactly they take when and how, so it’s left up to interpretation.