Comment by lotusmars
5 years ago
There is a difference between this and VK (owned by Mail.ru) basically having a web interface for police or anyone with money to read your messages.
You can bring a lot of “Apple is just as bad” outsider evidence, but I don’t know anyone who had their data leaked by Apple.
Yet I have dozens of anecdotal cases of people harrassed and targeted by using Russian networks. I mean you can basically buy my phone call history and parking surveillance for a few bucks online.
> There is a difference between this and VK (owned by Mail.ru) basically having a web interface for police or anyone with money to read your messages.
The only difference is that while US law enforcement can read Facebook messages, it has no interest in Ivan from Samara. But have no illusion: every government wants as much access to data as it can, and will use it against you.
> Yet I have dozens of anecdotal cases
Still anecdotal.