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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"They already have your data" (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by fede to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They may already have your data today but as soon as you can cut off pipelines that data starts getting stale.

[–] Luckyfriend222 11 points 1 day ago

This. So much this. How can people not grasp this idea? Companies don't care about something you bought 5 years ago. They are interested in your current data.