Risks of using messaging systemsįellow Community Moderator Chris Hermansen shares my concern about the growing invasion of our privacy by online communication tools. But are they really? Cloud-hosted applications that are harvesting metadata from your conversations, then using it to sell you products that support their services, may not be your friends after all. Many of them are encrypted, and many people presume that their communications on these apps are private and secure. There are Skype, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Twitter (with and without direct messages), WeChat, WhatsApp, SnapChat, and more. We have lots of messaging options in addition to SMS and MMS. Where would we be today without SMS? Can you imagine returning to a world where near-instant communication is not pervasive? Messaging apps have changed how we communicate.
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