The Out of Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'You the Birthday' Mean?
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Apple May Be Working on Multiple Styles and Frames for Its First Smart Glasses
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Apple May Be Working on Multiple Styles and Frames for Its F…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Apple's product lineup is not small: The company makes smartphones, tablets, computers, headphones, and smart watches, among many others. But aside from the Vision Pro, it's a bit late to break into the headset…
This Dual Screen E-Ink/LCD Smartphone Is One of the Most Ill-Conceived Tech Products of the Year
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This Dual Screen E-Ink/LCD Smartphone Is One of the Most Ill…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last week, Chinese tech firm Bigme teased an intriguing new addition to its lineup of e-readers and digital notebooks: the "world's first" dual-screen smartphone, with both an e-ink and an LCD display on opposite…
Elon Musk's XChat Claims to Offer 'Private' Messaging (but Is Reserving the Right to Collect Your Data)
Elon Musk's "X Corp" is back at it. The company's latest X-themed product is XChat, a messaging app built for X users to securely chat with one another. The app is currently available to preorder on the iOS App Store with an April 17 release date, and advertises itself as an end-to-end encrypted chat app free from ads or tracking. That sounds like a great pitch, especially if you're someone who frequently messages other X users. The problem is, the pitch doesn't seem entirely accurate.
As Mashable's Jack Dawes highlights, XChat's app privacy policies are a bit out of alignment with its promises. If you scroll to the "App Privacy" section of XChat's App Store page, you'll see that the app has declared it may collect the following data points, and link them to your identity:
● Location
● Contacts
● Search History
● Usage Data
● Contact Info
● User Content
● Identifiers
● Diagnostics
X Corp also says it may collect additional "User Content," but that this data is not linked to you. Regardless, this is a laundry list of information the so-called "private" chat app is taking from you, and linking to your identity. Even if XChat is entirely end-to-end encrypted, it seems rather disingenuous to claim the app has zero tracking, when its privacy policy says it can take any and all of these data point from you. I wouldn't feel particularly private if I knew XChat was scraping my contacts, location, and usage data, even if it didn't have access to the messages themselves. By comparison, Signal, one of the more popular secure chat apps, only collects contact info from its users—and doesn't link that data to the user themself.
XChat does claim it comes with some key features that other mainstream chat apps do. That includes editing or deleting messages for everyone in the chat, blocking screenshots, sending disappearing messages, cross-platform calling, and large group chats. (The App Store listing shows a group chat with 481 members.)
As the app is meant for X users to communicate with one another, you do need an X account to use XChat. That means the app likely won't pop off the same way other messaging apps have, but it may attract existing X users who have a number of contacts they already chat with in DMs. We'll see whether that's the case when the app launches later this week, but I imagine any privacy-minded users may prefer to seek alternative arrangements.
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Elon Musk's "X Corp" is back at it. The company's latest X-themed product is XChat, a messaging app built for X users to securely chat with one another. The app is currently available to preorder on the iOS App Store with an April 17 release date, and advertises itself as an end-to-end encrypted chat app free from ads or tracking. That sounds like a great pitch, especially if you're someone who frequently messages other X users. The problem is, the pitch doesn't seem entirely accurate.
As Mashable's Jack Dawes highlights, XChat's app privacy policies are a bit out of alignment with its promises. If you scroll to the "App Privacy" section of XChat's App Store page, you'll see that the app has declared it may collect the following data points, and link them to your identity:
● Location
● Contacts
● Search History
● Usage Data
● Contact Info
● User Content
● Identifiers
● Diagnostics
X Corp also says it may collect additional "User Content," but that this data is not linked to you. Regardless, this is a laundry list of information the so-called "private" chat app is taking from you, and linking to your identity. Even if XChat is entirely end-to-end encrypted, it seems rather disingenuous to claim the app has zero tracking, when its privacy policy says it can take any and all of these data point from you. I wouldn't feel particularly private if I knew XChat was scraping my contacts, location, and usage data, even if it didn't have access to the messages themselves. By comparison, Signal, one of the more popular secure chat apps, only collects contact info from its users—and doesn't link that data to the user themself.
XChat does claim it comes with some key features that other mainstream chat apps do. That includes editing or deleting messages for everyone in the chat, blocking screenshots, sending disappearing messages, cross-platform calling, and large group chats. (The App Store listing shows a group chat with 481 members.)
As the app is meant for X users to communicate with one another, you do need an X account to use XChat. That means the app likely won't pop off the same way other messaging apps have, but it may attract existing X users who have a number of contacts they already chat with in DMs. We'll see whether that's the case when the app launches later this week, but I imagine any privacy-minded users may prefer to seek alternative arrangements.
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch Can Finally Measure Blood Pressure in the U.S.
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch Can Finally Measure Blood Pressure …
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Samsung’s Galaxy Watches have been able to measure your blood pressure for years now—theoretically. U.S. users just got access to the feature, in a phased rollout that finally reached my device. I’ll show…
女性友谊始于对自己的爱 —— Intro部分笔记 (评论: A Passion for Friends)
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