ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely secure. Worse, anything you post on Mastodon is, once sent, for all intents and purposes completely irrevocable. To function, the network relies upon the good faith participation of thousands of independently owned and operated servers, but a bad actor simply has to behave not in good faith and there is absolutely no mechanism to stop them or to get around this. Worse, whatever legal protections are in place around personal data are either non-applicable or would be stunningly hard to enforce.
Wait until you find out about e-mail!
That depends entirely on which country you are in and where the mailservers that your email passes through is located.
e-mail is protected by law.
And pulling out is an effective form of birth control
Hilarious
Go troll somewhere else.
Cite and quote the specific laws that actually prevent anyone but the recipent from reading an email. If you can’t or won’t, you are the troll.
No. I leave you this burden. It’s too easy to type “Hilarious” and let the other party do the research.
I can’t find things that don’t exist.
You are the one saying it does, so the burden of proof is on you, troll.
Hilarious
edit: lol, you downvoted me like kids do.
You were downed for failing to grasp very simple concepts of logic.
Email is only protected under certain circumstances, and the law does not contemplate protection against the provider… only the provider’s disclosure of your email to third parties. However, internal disclosure is, as far as I know, not prohibited.
Refer to the Email Privacy Act (USA) and the GDPR for more info.
Note: Best to consult a privacy lawyer versus a Melpomene if you have questions. @RoboRay
Sure, but that’s not the broad and obviously false claim made.
Agree, which is why I shared. Just looping you in as a courtesy!