Privacy

31632 readers

287 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 4 years ago

MODERATORS

FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing (www.ftc.gov)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sem@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

After reading such news I have an obvious question. Does anyone know a PayPal-like service, that allows to hide the destination of my transactions from Mastercard / bank, but with a good privacy policy? Or how else can I restrict the usage of my financial data by mastercard or bank?

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

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Best way to hide transactions is with crypto. And namely Monero. Not exactly PayPal like but Monero is the most private.

[–] sem@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately there are a very small amount of places when I can pay with crypto... I do not want to face also questions from AML officers. I'm not a journalist in the dangerous country or political activist, so Monero looks like an overhead for me.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Monero is for everybody. The most common things I purchase on a monthly basis in Monero are Domino's Pizza and groceries. And as far as I'm aware, neither of those things are illegal. Monero is money, just like a $100 bill is money (currently). It is perfectly legal to hold and use Monero.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Domino takes crypto now?

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, but it's very easy to buy a Domino's gift card with Monero and use that.

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where I live they used to accept BTC. Not Monero unfortunately.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Well, there are plenty of places that do accept Monero. Take a look at https://monerica.com and https://xmrbazaar.com which is a small but growing marketplace to buy and sell anything you wish (excluding illegal goods) .