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.

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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
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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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Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing (newatlas.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's taking screenshots.

Saved you a click.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago

Not just screenshots. Generally look at the permissions apps have; screenshots is one of them, but all sorts of other data can be sent off by any app with internet access.