[figassis]

They would because the communications involve 2 parties. Your consent to someone snooping on my calls with you should not be enough, because for example, you still need my consent to record calls I have with you.

Now, Meta decides to MITM the communications that I intentionally encrypted so that it can gain a competitive advantage…well, remember when meta kicked out researchers what had obtained consent from users to perform research on its platform? That was not even illegal. This is.

[ndriscoll]

At least in the US, most states are single party consent.

The whole thing's a mess, but it's funny to me that people would get indignant over a user letting another party intercept analytics data. "Hey, that's my data from spyware! Get your own!" As if their "consent" to collect the data in the first place were any less flimsy than Facebook's.