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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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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
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Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm using Proton for privacy, not anonymity. I've literally put my name and surname in my email address. I don't care if someone knows that me is me.

But I do care that no one is reading and/or automatically processing my mails.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Same. My real name is on mine too. Everything you give an email to that isn't Google is one more piece of data Google doesn't have presumably. If those corrupt bastards collect the aggregate anyways, that still costs them money. If it's automated, guess what? Aggregating our data still costs money, and data centers are expensive to maintain. Every little but matters.