Privacy

31639 readers

77 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

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data (www.infoterkiniviral.com)

submitted 5 months ago by MrSoup@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13793778

Fake WhatsApp and Instagram apps that can steal personal data

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

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I have a different opinion on this. I think the user should be responsible. If they allow someone to break in, it's their problem. That means users should have some technical knowledge. There's nothing wrong with antiviruses and stuff but forcing them isn't right and can turn into censorship or other unethical restrictions at some point (there already were such cases)