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
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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.

Please join and nominate mods by messaging me or writing below.

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[–] federico3@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Anonimity is simply privacy regarding your identity.

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

[–] obbeel@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

People can't understand that being in charge of your body and your mind is essential, it's fucked up. Big Tech will do what it wants for still some time to come.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You make a great point about anonymity. And something I didnt really think about. We should be concious about whether to use anonymity or privacy.

Im not sure whether it's a good idea to create a community for anonymity alone, because that would divide the community. However perhaps creating a community that encapsulates both. With a name that reflects this and encourages members to be concious about this distinction.

[–] sparrow22@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

The idea came from a privacy guide which said not to use Tor Browser.

Tor Browser: it's a browser made for anonimity, not privacy