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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The NSA already has your social map from Apple, Google, Facebook/whatsapp, plus a hundred other sources you've given access to your contacts in the past decade.

Even if you've never used any of those, or given any app access to your contacts, 99% of your contacts have.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Data is about as good as it is current though and many people are reducing their exposure to these parasites

A person can now pretty easily go without logging into any of these apps with a few adjustments.

Hence why signal relationship maps will be even more valuable going forward. Hence my theory about signal...