Privacy

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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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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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
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Not now, not ever! Stop asking! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/29758710

Google is not entitled to my personal banking information or any other PII! WTF if I go to a store and want to buy I will.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Smartphones are the biggest spyware. I prefer to lick my elbow before storing sensitive data in these devices or using it with banking or medical apps.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I prefer to carry my laptop with it. I mostly use my phone as a mobile router.

The less you do on your phone, the better.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Good ol' Nokia 3350 times