I strongly support consumer privacy when communicating online but this move is entirely a strategic play to use privacy as a competitive advantage & further lock-in Facebook as the dominant messaging platform.
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BREAKING: @Facebook moves to combine its multiple Messaging platforms.
While positioned as a privacy-friendly play, it's timing suggests a competition play to head off any potential regulatory efforts to limit data sharing across services
https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-focused-vision-for-social-networking/10156700570096634/ …
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While communications *between* users will be E2E encrypted, messages to
@Facebook services will still be collected/retained by@Facebook in order to provide you the services (for example, when you chat with 'service bots' https://botanalytics.co/blog/2018/03/29/best-facebook-messenger-bots/ …Show this thread -
I *highly* recommend watching this video about the success of
@WeChat in China to understand what@Facebook's move is here: https://nyti.ms/2jZdURP via@nytvideoShow this thread -
One critical question is: Will
@Facebook Messenger/@WhatsApp / etc be interoperable with Signal messenger &@Google Allo? These all use the same underlying protocol (Axolotl Ratchet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol …Show this thread
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This is no competition play. It’s merely a move to hide the fact that core Facebook is in existential decline and they don’t want it standing alone to reveal that.
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But Mr Z won’t face UK commission to answer questions.
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“My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook.” Should’ve been understanding, humbly correcting and preventing a huge data breech and the biggest abuse of personal data for unethical, manipulative ends, Mr Z.
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This is true or Facebook would integrate with Snapchat or make your whole Facebook profile portable to a competing social network.
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