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Why The Left Should Care About Privacy (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 3 months ago by HailSeitan@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (20 children)

If you didn't realize the importance of privacy after the patriot act and seeing the continuation of right wing authoritarianism, it's definitely time to get on board asap. Get yourself and your community on signal instead of texts and tuta or proton instead of regular email, use a vpn (mullvad or proton are solid), and depending on what kinds of actions you may or may not be interested in, learn how to use tails os and tor (try to find a copy of the darknetmarket bible for a good intro)

Edit: simplex is a good alternative to signal too, and if you have a google pixel, grapheneos is solid. Next time you're getting a new phone, get a used pixel and install it. On your computer, there's a lot of telemetry and sketchy stuff windows does, either research and disable that or switch to linux if you can

[–] GadgeteerZA@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@iiGxC@slrpnk.net don't forget the CL:OUD Act either - that has serious privacy implications for countries outside the USA

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think people outside the US are fair game

If you don't like it then don't send your data to the US

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