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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[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Of course we do, but for example we use nicknames on Facebook and our government shot down the real name verification they were pushing.

Data privacy acts are actually enforced, and most users are at least somewhat informed about GDPR and their rights.

Meta is not allowed to link facebook and whatsapp user data to get around that, so the data gathered within whatsapp is not nearly as powerful as the connection between the two would be (three, if you count Instagram), etc. etc.