Privacy

31833 readers

247 users here now

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 :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Google Authenticator collects much more data than the other authenticator apps PCMag reviewed (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 2 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Same. I also checked the data usage on my phone and google authenticator has used NO mobile data since I've had it installed for over a year. So I'm calling bullshit on this article.

I also do not see nearly as many permissions requested as in that screenshot. It needs photo and video permissions because you can upload qr codes and stuff. Also you can (don't have to) link it your google account, so obviously it would have access to your google stuff.

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah what can be done is create a clean Google account registered through an anonymous phone number and a throwaway user name & password, and best to secure it with a hardware key just to make sure no one can get into your OTPs by somehow getting access to those credentials. That should allow you to save credentials in an account at least if you make sure to not login to it on the same device as your other accounts.

But also not blaming anyone for not trusting Google in the first place.