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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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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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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

But they is not even how those things work. And if you read the story the mic never came on. There has been no one who has found that the mic is sending audio to the cloud but yet people keep on believing it. See what they are actually doing and be mad about that as it is bad.

[–] corvus@lemmy.ml 1 points 40 minutes ago

The whole point is that there's no need so send audio, it would be childish to do so.