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What are some controversial privacy topics? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Charger8232@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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If you don't know me, I make frequent write ups about privacy and security. I've covered some controversial topics in the past, such as whether or not Chromium is more secure than Firefox. Well, I will try my hand again at taking a look at some controversial topics.

I need ideas, though. So far, I would like to cover the controversy about Brave, controversy around Monero and other cryptocurrencies, and controversy around AI. These will be far easier to research and manage than Chromium vs. Firefox, for example. I'd like to know which ideas you have!

Which controversial privacy topics do you know of that you would like to see covered?

PLEASE DO NOT ARGUE ABOUT THEM IN THE COMMENTS!

Please save any debate for if/when I make a write up about the topic. Keep the comments clean, and simply upvote ideas you would like to see covered. I won't be able to cover everything, so it helps bring attention!

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 20 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Signal as a centralized meta-data honeypot.

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh boi I’m trying to get people to use simplex exactly because of this. I managed to bring most people to Signal and they’re cool with it because it just works, but I don’t trust them at all. Sure there was this court order where they didn’t have any user data except account created date and last active date, but since almost everybody uses either Google‘s or Apple‘s push notification servers turns out that doesn’t matter so much from what I undertstood.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can use your own builds of Signal (or preferably Molly-FOSS) including a self-hosted server. You can bring your own push notification as well.

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I think that’s really cool. Unfortunately most people won’t be doing that, they don’t even care that WhatsApp, etc. are scraping all their data :(

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 5 points 17 hours ago

💯 but can it be a honeypot when the OG promise was connection not meta security?