Privacy

32159 readers

322 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

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

879

New Advertisement and Internet connection permissions for Simple SMS Messenger on Google Play Store... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by reactive_recall@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

158 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Title

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

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

sigh. Most people will just accept the new default permissions without blinking an eye. They're taking advantage of people's ignorance.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You overestimate most peoples tech skills. They will never know because they have auto-updates activated.