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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Dumbest excuses/stuff your family/other people told you about Privacy on the internet and degoogle? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that "Every normal person will use gmail";

My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Linux Torvalds recently said he doesn't try to worryabout privacy just tries to be as boring as possible (on ltt) and I thought that's pretty harmful advice.

[–] ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I try to be spicy and waste surveillance money. I actually got an email from NZ Security Intelligence Service one time but they emailed me from a mail.com domain. They said they were writing to me "human to human" and asked me if I was "planning anything rash". This was in response to some edgy posts that I made online. I deliberately act mental to tie up government resources lol. I make a huge trail and when they get a surveillance warrant on me I start going to Google or bing and I ask questions like "was 9/11 an inside job" so that Security intelligence Service sees it. I also blame the government for supporting the wholesale slaughter of people in Afghanistan to make them feel guilty.