Morality is not an illusion, it’s a social construct.

Absolute privacy is an illusion, because it doesn’t really exist, and if you believe you have achieved it you are fooling yourself.

they are not really comparable concepts.

The spying is not what suprises me, it’s the prosecution. I see why the term matched, I just don’t see why it would be illegal.

I wouldn’t expect my data to be secure, but I wouldn’t expect to be prosecuted as if I had willfully made it a public statement.

he wrote “On my way to blow up the plane (I’m a member of the Taliban).” in a private group chat on snap chat

…a private group chat. Nothing stupid like posting it on xitter or other public place.

Its a fucking in-joke. Do I need to worry about what I say to my friends now in private and worry about what my friendly local government spy would think about it… ?

All this invasion of privacy all these years and all they have to show for it are a few false positives.

If you’re european it’s a clear breach of GDPR. Photos of people are generally considered personal data

because every other instance does the same.

this comment is content, it’s now stored on the instance I share it with, and all the instances it federates to, along with my username and so forth.

the above is just a legalese explanation of how the fediverse works.

Thats a nothingburger and a half.

This just lists the info that is auto shared through federation, in legalese. The second one explains how federated deletes work, also in legalese. This is the info any instance would handle if you interacted with it.