Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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what got you into privacy in the first place? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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mine: i got recommended an mental outlaw video by YouTubes algorithm and that's where i got the pro privacy mindset

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[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I worked in a field that managed a lot of technology in retail stores. The big ones know everything about you, it's just astonishing. At the time (around 15 years ago) there was very little oversight, but also most CIOs were inept and couldn't really make the data sing and dance. Today that is very much no longer true, and it's almost too easy to build a comprehensive profile of an "anonymous" guest and then attach it to their personally identifiable information, all without their consent or knowledge.