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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.

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Starting today Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy. (tutanota.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would love for the EU to just go all-out hardcore privacy protection and fine GAFAM et al. into fucking oblivion for not complying. If they shut down services, that's probably for the better, although it will be a rough awakening for most people (probably including myself)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

GAFAM?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Google Amazon Facebook Apple Microsoft 👉 big tech

[–] Tubbles 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aka facegoomicrappama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQzCqkIQ60

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=2tQzCqkIQ60

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Just a guess:

Google
Amazon
Facebook
Apple
Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The big 5 tech: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft

There's a few other acronyms for the same, this is the one I remember most often