PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.
If you are part of a vulnerable group – LGBT+, ethnic minority, women, religious minority, teen, anyone – do not think they won’t hand your DMs to a government looking to persecute you. Yes, including feckin’ Tumblr.
i figured this was common knowledge, but in case you don’t know – NO social media messaging service like this is safe to discuss such things. i’ve heard signal is good and i know it has a great reputation, but never ever ever trust a company to not hand over your data and DMs in a heartbeat
Both Google Gemini and Siri now have free access to ALL of your apps, no matter whether they use encryption. You were not informed of this, but it apparently came with a recent update. Toggle those motherfuckers off!
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If you use Signal, Discord, or any other messaging app and you DON’T want Google or Apple monitoring/reading/learning from your messages, follow these steps.
Android:
1) Open google app
2) Tap your profile photo
3) Settings
4) Google Assistant
5) “Your apps”
6) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)
7) Toggle “let your assistant learn from this app” off
iPhone
1) Settings
2) Apps
3) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)
4) Toggle Apple intelligence or Siri settings to off (“learn from this app”)
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And yeah, can confirm on android: went and checked and google assistant – which I don’t ever use – was plugged into all my apps. Well, no more.
Additionally, for android users (I don’t have an iPhone so no clue what to do on that side), after going through Assistant->Your Apps, back out and do Assistant->Your Data in the Assistant. See what else it’s wired into (web & app activity, if it’s in your contact info, if it’s in your YouTube history) and especially follow up on the ‘personalized ads’ bit down at the bottom.
Fuck you panopticon, I’m gonna keep poking you in the eye with a stick every opportunity I get!
amhrancas 