"We're not going to break encryption and violate privacy, but give us the information we ask for when we ask you for it, or face sanctions."
Uh, huh!
A level or two of indirection does not stop that politician from being a liar! Notice how he's completely unwilling to clarify the language that allows mass surveillance in that bill.
Also, you don't need to give any messenger app access to your current location. Using a dedicated app that only has permission to access your location while you are using it is a much cleaner solution.
> Messenger is a popular service so there’s presumably a not-insignificant amount of people that used the SMS/MMS integration to just have one messaging app. However, it’s likely not a core aim for the company anymore, especially with WhatsApp being the other big service it maintains. The deprecation is ultimately a win for Google and its continued RCS efforts.
@tcely
I never used Facebook Messenger, outside of the in-browser version when Facebook was a thing. I do feel for the people who were using it for SMS though.
I'm still a bit sore at #Signal / #SignalApp dropping support for SMS, because that was a way I could get people who weren't tech savvy to start using it with me, to increase the volume (and thus security) of E to E encryption in #EncryptedMessaging, but now I don't really have an option outside of Google Messenger.