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.

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Do you think sometimes privacy practices of people at c/privacy or r/privacy communities are overparanoid or take things too far? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 20 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've had people tell me that this is (their words, not mine): "mental illness"

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Most people have absolutely zero idea how much data they put out there

As evidence, I've heard people talk about worrying their phone is listening to their conversations. It's not that they don't care about privacy, it's that they don't even know what's possible. With all the data collection that is happening, the data brokers are already selling a dataset predicting that you are going to be shopping for new baby items and what types of manipulative tactics are likely to work on you well before you talk to your friend about it.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

I also truly hate "family groups" where phones and accounts commonly associated with you get just pings on a topic to make you more malleable to the idea when you finally get the ads.