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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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Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The surveillance is conducted by the private sector in cahoots with the fascist state for profit rather than directly by the state.

Yeah, I don't think that's a particularly meaningful distinction. It's actually a viable definition of fascism itself.

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini