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“I have nothing to hide”: Why Privacy Matters (threema.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A very, very helpful article to help get people we fight with to understand why this is important for anyone and everyone. Send this to friends and family.

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[–] bystander@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope haha, just their Facebook app on their mobile phones is needed to grab all the data. And once logged in, Facebook will actually track the user's phone usage and their Internet usage as data without the user knowing. To add to their pile to analyze the user.

This also includes Instagram and Whatsapp. Meta's other products.

Not participating in any of their products so your data is not their raw resource is good, keep it that way.