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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School (www.gadgetreview.com)

submitted 1 week ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"private" snapchat.

[–] yolocastillo@mastodon.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The privacy vs convenience trade-off is real. I've been slowly replacing cloud services with self-hosted alternatives on my homelab: Nextcloud for files, Jellyfin for media, Immich for photos, and Gitea for code. The upfront setup effort is real, but waking up knowing your data is truly yours? Worth every minute. What's the one service you'd never self-host?

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Well kinda. Take this example. They could have used Signal at near zero risk. No burden, no inconvenience, simple.

Of course in many situations it is a hassle to switch, but this was not one of them.

[–] yolocastillo@mastodon.social -3 points 1 week ago

@privacy Very insightful post! The balance between convenience and privacy is always tricky. I've been progressively moving away from cloud services to self-hosted alternatives. Nextcloud for files, Matrix for messaging, and Gitea for code. The initial setup takes effort but the control you gain is worth it.