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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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Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes (futurism.com)

submitted 5 days ago by sobchak@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure... but the hard part is convincing 2 or 3 billion of my closest friends. Esp when faced with systems designed by teams of psychologits, to be highly addictive.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago

Well your reach is actually a lot greater than you think. I can't find it right now but a recent study suggested your IRL influence is roughly 1-3 million people, friend of a friend of a friend of a friend type stuff. Behaviours course through networks of people you don't even know. A The most powerful thing you can do as a single human being is to log off.