Privacy

44605 readers

925 users here now

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.

Some Rules

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
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

349

Facebook is forcing new users to use facial recognition (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

123 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I mean a platform that's used in my country. It's still centralized, and the practices are not much better, probably only because they haven't yet gotten around to all the same shady shit.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Eh at least they presumably pay attention, moderate it, and tailor it to your country.

One of my issues with FB is that it mind as well be run from Alpha Centauri. There’s nothing “human” or local about, its a gaping maw mixed with tons of other predatory service.