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.

Some Rules

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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Privacy is only a part of this. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by sparrow22@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Anonymity is another.

Privacy is being secure in your files, your thoughts, your private and group conversations.

Anonymity gives you safety to share your findings. Whether that's whistleblowing or ideas or results, having your real identity attached may be more risk than it's worth. Why do we need both?

Since these are separate things, it makes sense for Anonymity to have its own sub.

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[–] Gamerie@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Isn't it counterproductive to split a niche forum into smaller parts for growth and hence success of it?

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was created more for specialization than to split the community. As others have pointed out, anonymity is a particular kind of privacy. There's no exclusivity. You can be in both.

Though it's hard to know the effect of another sub, Privacy is one of the largest subs here so seems one of the most likely to be able to survive an offshoot.

[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It won't hurt!

A sidebar would be great, just a couple of words what it is about :)