{"id":7580,"date":"2018-04-08T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:11:28","slug":"microsoft-facebook-intervening-private-conversations-long-beep-bad-parts-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/microsoft-facebook-intervening-private-conversations-long-beep-bad-parts-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Facebook start intervening in private conversations. How long until they beep out unwanted parts in real time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:125%;font-weight:600\">For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until digital phonecalls start beeping out unwanted topics?<\/p>\n<p>The series on \u201cAnalog Equivalent Privacy Rights\u201d had barely finished until the next piece of WTF hit: Microsoft is going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2018\/03\/28\/microsoft_services_agreement_bars_offensive_language\/\">start policing<\/a> what you say and how you say it in Skype and XBox one-on-one conversations. This is interesting from a legal standpoint, and extremely alarming from a liberty standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons it\u2019s interesting from a legal perspective is because there\u2019s this concept of <em>Common Carrier<\/em> in the United States, which has a European equivalent in the <em>Mere Conduit<\/em> principle. It\u2019s a quid-pro-quo between legislators and telecoms companies: As long as, and <em>only<\/em> as long as the telco companies don\u2019t interfere with the conversations on the line, then they are also completely shielded from any <em>liability<\/em> for the conversations on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The minute they start interfering, they are no longer shielded from liability. Therefore, you would think it would be in their interest to never, ever, interfere with the conversations held on the line.<\/p>\n<p>This is where Microsoft enters a gray area with punishing people after the fact, based on the conversations that happened on their network. (Note how even this would still be completely unthinkable for an analog telecom provider of the Plain Old Telephone System, or POTS.) You can argue that they\u2019re technically not interfering with the conversation <em>when it happens<\/em>, and therefore may not technically be in violation of the <em>letter<\/em> of the law, but they\u2019re certainly well into a gray area with regards to the <em>spirit<\/em> of this law, as people will self-censor to avoid such interference.<\/p>\n<p>(Let\u2019s get a sidetrack out of the way here: crimes can and do happen over phone lines, such as harassment and threats. When they do, it\u2019s the Police that handle them. The phone company, if it wants a shield from liability, does not get to set an <em>additional<\/em> set of rules over and above what the Police handle. Nobody\u2019s contesting that the Police should enforce laws against criminal behavior in phonecalls, and that\u2019s not what this is about.)<\/p>\n<p>It could be argued that Facebook is already doing this but a step worse: Facebook is looking through your personal chats and punishing you for anything that doesn\u2019t fit their pre-conceived notion of a universal moral code (which is of course not universal at all, but strictly American; if Facebook had been a German company, for example, nudity and sex would have been considered just a random expression, but hate speech would be far harsher punished.) If something in your <em>personal correspondence<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/messenger-privacy-facebook-scanning-all-your-personal-chats-heres-why-874596\">doesn\u2019t sit well<\/a> with Facebook, they can and will send you into social exile.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Facebook is using socially acceptable reasons to justify this, such as \u201cwe\u2019re trying to catch child abuse imagery\u201d. However, that would be a <em>Police<\/em> matter, as per the sidetrack above; Facebook is punishing their users for completely legal speech, that may be completely inoffensive and consensual; things that Facebook just doesn\u2019t want people to be talking about. As a key example, a Swedish person was asked in private messages for a publisher of erotic fiction, and responded helpfully to the question in the same private channel, for which he was shut off from Facebook for 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>As for public messages, Facebook has gone one step further and prevented them from being posted <em>at all<\/em>, which would be much closer to the bullseye of real-time interference with communications. The archetypal example of this was when Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/facebook-blocks-all-pirate-bay-links-090408\/\">prevented links to The Pirate Bay<\/a> to be shared on Facebook, which ironically <em>opened Facebook up<\/em> for litigation, as it would have lost its Common Carrier status in that second; I suspect the intent was the very opposite and intended as a legal CYA maneuver.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of course, from a privacy perspective, this is extremely alarming. While you can argue that they have a right to do whatever they want on their own platforms, society as a whole suffers immeasurably if we can\u2019t have consensual conversations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The final question would therefore be when these companies, seeing how they\u2019re already at least on the hedge for full-on policing the conversations of their users, start beeping out unwanted content in realtime, or insert a third-person voice with a warning whenever it takes place.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I believe it\u2019s just about 20 minutes into the future (as in, just around the corner).<\/p>\n<p>Privacy remains your own responsibility. Use encrypted voice channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, a telecommunications provider is having opinions on the content of your conversations. This is unprecedented and a sharp deviation from all previous history. How long until digital phonecalls start beeping out unwanted topics? 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