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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.

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submitted 4 days ago by runching@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Lol, saying you are "beginning a process designed to delete your data" is a very different thing to actually deleting your data.

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[–] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sounds like a great reason not to use their services

[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is any company, government, or other organisation with +80 employees. The two other alternatives are

Have all data in Excel with no data governance, robust procedures, or trust in data, as the organisation grows in size
Use only external tools (which in turn are owned by organisations that work like I described in my parent comment)

I'd love to hear of there's other ways of doing this stuff that actually works, but so far I just haven't experienced it in my career yet.

[–] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not disputing the technical aspect. But due to these realities I prefer to drastically limit the services I interact with.

[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Aha I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying.

Actually for this specific context, there's an easy solution: I reckon for llms self-hosting would be the way to go, if your hardware supports it. I've heard a lot of the smaller models have gotten a lot more powerful over the last year.

[–] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Small fine tuned models seem to be where the market as a whole is headed. Even the big players like OpenAI/Google/Meta are doing this as a means to optimize infrastructure. The Qwen3 models have been really interesting to work with.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or, optionally, host it yourself

[–] djmikeale@feddit.dk 1 points 3 days ago

Good point!

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean this in the most polite way possible, but it seems like youve never read a privacy policy before

[–] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

What makes you say that?