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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Why does my calculator need a privacy policy? It's a calculator! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who knows, maybe they're required by Google to provide a privacy policy, like xscreensaver was

[–] grue 13 points 2 months ago

Google is so far off the deep end of "cloud" shit and surveillance capitalism that the people running the Play Store can no longer even conceive of software that's incapable of spying because it doesn't connect to the Internet to begin with.