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I wonder how they've choose these platforms. Haiket.com doesn't even come out by lookin it up on duckduckgo.
BirdyChat is under limited access. Must wait in waitlist or have an invite from someone already in. Plus they say on their site its "access is limited to professionals".
Also, obviously, none of these are foss.
They don't choose the platform, the platforms choose them. Under EU regulation WhatsApp as a "gatekeeper" has to give access to any other platform operating in the EU if they request it. Three a, Signal and co simply aren't interested.
So anyone from Europe can ask it? And only these two showed up?
The Haiket website doesn't seem to disclose anything about the people, company, org, or group behind it.
The privacy policy does not disclose them as processors by name either.
The privacy policy GDPR section does not talk about shared information, presumably because they don't because they can't without consent, but the California section says:
Implying a default no-explicit-consent selling of personal and sensitive personal information outside of the GDPR regions.
Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they're not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way
Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.
And birdychat is professional only.
Professional what? I'm very professional at being professional.