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by jabradoodle 984 days ago
This is a silly distinction, if they have just as much data but it's encrypted and they can't use it, most people would call that less data.
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I am as much anti sureveillance as you get. There is abdifference so between end-to-end encryption of communications (all for it) and collecting user data (all against it). Usually I hate semantics, because most of the time people use it to nitpick on deffinitiom ignoring what people understand using a word, but here the differwnce between the two things is a) technical reality and b) relevant for topic at hand.