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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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Your phone is a snitch in your pocket, and the law won't save you. It's time to break the surveillance machine. (lemmy.ml)

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

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Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.

The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.

Encryption apps aren't enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.

The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.

We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.

The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.

Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.

#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust

How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?

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[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 68 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It's anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I'm guilty of too!

[–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

💯 support EFF

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago

I've donated monthly to OpenRightGroup well over a decade now. I make sure it is always more than my wife's Netflix (DRM pusher) to maintain a net positive!

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Very well said. Everything you said I agree about 100%.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds.

I'm doing my best. It's hard tho. They just... don't care. They don't understand why it is important. Important for their future, and for all of our future. They don't seem to grasp why it matters so much, and what price we have to pay when we get it wrong.

I try to find concrete examples for them. But when people are invested already in some big tech ecosytem, it's easy to discount the examples. "That wouldn't apply to me".

I'm trying so hard, but it is an up hill fight :(.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it's hard. People don't want to see the problems because they don't want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can't fail to convince.