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Lots of excitement today with confirmation of the EU's breakthrough # legislation, mandating that big tech must provide documented open comms APIs. 🎉🎊😱 But there's also been concern that open APIs could undermine E2E encryption: our viewpoint is at https://matrix.org/blog/2022/03/25/interoperability-without-sacrificing-privacy-matrix-and-the-dma

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Hans van Zijst
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If the rag-tag Matrix ecosystem can do it, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to think that a $600B company like Meta can figure it out too...

Amen!
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Aminda Suomalainen
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I still have concerns with # and #, https://www.aminda.eu/blog/english/2021/08/03/matrix-perfect-privacy-not.html#you-mentioned-privacy

In this case # would provide self-destructing messages that
@matrix doesn't support unless you count m.room.retention that is apparently experimental and shouldn't be used. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/11279

Sure there is a ticket since 2016, but not much activity that I can publicly see https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/82

`m.room.retention` is not carried over during room upgrade · Issue #11279 · matrix-org/synapse

Discussed in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/discussions/11277 Originally posted by Mikaela November 8, 2021 I just upgraded a room in https://develop.element.io/ from version 6 to version 9....
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