All govs want to protect or further their personal interests: Monopolies of violence, power, and intelligence. The citizens be damned.
The essay gives some. Also look into Session Messenger.
people like you will actually wait until the very day that such a thing happens, THEN you will complain. How sad.
There's nothing you can really do about it. Lemmy should encourage as much privacy as possible, and it's plain to see that there is work to be done in that realm, however, you should always protect yourself from the servers you connect to and store data on, regardless of whether it's oriented to privacy or otherwise.
Using VPN or TOR, not saying anything that could identify you, making multiple accounts, things like this.
Nice. Hope to see some public instances and eventually integration with those redirect extensions.
So lucky to have a cool mom <3
Because that's what they are told to think. The notion that they are thinking on their own is laughable.
I never turn on BT. I have mac randomization for wifi
i didnt scan any barcode when i went in recently. I was saying that I did before (a couple years ago i think), which could be how to attached facial data to email, if indeed they did do it the association that with facial data
first one is not plausible, I allow no location data to a single app, especially not any closed source apps
Second one also not plausible. I have MAC randomization.
They are extremely begrudging when it comes to providing a fully FOSS apk. They push really hard for their app to be pulled from Google's servers and refuse to do an F-Droid build or even set up their own instance where they can push whatever they want.
I have the perfect app for you
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.trustdevice.android