• @BendingHawk@lemmy.world
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    11 day ago

    I hate to say this, but PRIVACY IS DEAD… Atleast online… Unless, you are an IT expert and been using VPNs since 2001.

  • @beanlink_@lemmy.world
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    112 days ago

    Until there is serious consequences to data breaches and criminal charges it doesn’t matter. It’s been a free for all for a long time the best we can do is simply keep using products or services that respect your privacy and discourage or not use services.

    • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      52 days ago

      Yeah, our response to the Equifax breach was the end of data privacy. Oh, you lost literally all of the data for all of the adults in the US that you have been tracking without consent? All good, don’t worry.

      Really, the response should have been the FBI taking all of their equipment, figuring out exactly what was stolen, notifying all the victims, then formatting and shredding all the equipment and sending Equifax a bill, on top of a huge fine.

  • @AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
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    121 day ago

    I’m still pissed the email I had managed to keep junk free for years was leaked because my insurance company had a breach.

    • @frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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      71 day ago

      Simplelogin/anonaddy

      That having been said, keeping an email “private” is roughly as silly as people who think phone numbers are private, as if the white pages never existed.

  • @tekato@lemmy.world
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    42 days ago

    Using Linux does not make you safe either. Given that almost every server runs Linux, you can bet good money that most intelligence agencies have a few full time employees adding backdoors to the kernel XZ Utils style, and at least one of them has succeeded.

    • deaf_fish
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      42 days ago

      True, but I’m a betting man and I bet that the US intelligence agency is so deep in Microsoft that Linux looks totally free and clear by comparison.

  • @CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    533 days ago

    Demand it from who? With what power or leverage?

    Not to be defeatist, but I’m just a guy. Nobody’s gonna listen to my demands. I’m surprised privacy notifications say anything other than “You don’t have any” with two buttons that both say “OK”. All I can do is selfhost as much as possible and decline to use tons of applications or services that underpin modern societal functions or social activities. So I do. But it sucks ass and I don’t have any power to change any of it.

    • @nyctre@lemmy.world
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      133 days ago

      No, but the point they’re trying to make is, I think, that the more you complain, the more other people complain and the more other people start complaining and unless we have enough complainers and people switching, nothing is gonna change.

      Our power is imperceptible but not non-existent

    • @dwindling7373@feddit.it
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      223 days ago

      Where I am, unlike climate change, the privacy issue is not discussed properly so just explaining it to people that trust you can boost any future systemic action.

      • hendrik
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        Right. I’m not saying I’m proud of it… Just that I’m here and I took notice. Thx for making the meme. I think there is more to the story… But at the same time it also nails it.

    • @AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      22 days ago

      This is unrelated to the article you’re sharing now, but I read that (I agree thoroughly that the GDPR needs to be a start, but that it’s inconsistently followed/enforced) and then I saw and read your article about apathetic cis people who might be agender. That’s a neat perspective that I hadn’t considered before — I’m cis and very much not apathetic about my gender (and I sometimes experience dysphoria if I am not treated as my gender). However, I have a bunch of other friends who have described their attachment to their gender as being far more “meh”, and I am looking forward to getting a chance to discuss your article with them.

      It strikes me that most of my friends are some flavour of LGBTQIA+, but I don’t know anyone who is agender. However, 10 years ago, many of my friends who now are non-binary didn’t know a term for their experience of gender, so identified as the closest they could find (such as lesbian). I wonder how many people I know who might find that “agender” feels like a fitting identity, if it were more prevalent in discourse etc.

  • @mvirts@lemmy.world
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    62 days ago

    That’s why I demand (nag constantly) that everyone around me run Linux 🤣

    Jk we’re all doomed to live in an Orwellian dystopia

  • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    21 day ago

    Valid. I also don’t have the “I don’t care” stance but rather that medical providers etc should go to jail for storing data on unsecure infrastructure

  • @einlander@lemmy.world
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    1623 days ago

    Don’t forget with the Recall feature, you may be on Linux and are using a secure communication application, but if who you are talking to is on windows your conversation can be scraped.

    • AbsentBird
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      52 days ago

      So it’s not enough to brag about being on Linux ourselves, we should be encouraging our friends to switch to Linux as well?

    • @nialv7@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      How’s this different from someone just record your call? The thing you are worrying about has been possible long before Recall is a thing.

    • Hellfire103
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      883 days ago

      Same thing with email. It’s all well and good if you’re using ProtonMail or Tuta or Posteo, but you’re still cooked if the other side is using Gmail.

      Old problems, new modi operandi.

      • @ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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        253 days ago

        Afaik, with proton you can send messages that won’t open through gmail if you protect them with a password. The other person receives a message with a link to open the mail in a browser after entering the password. It’s not the easiest solution but if you want to avoid gmail from knowing the contents of a message, you can do that.

    • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      63 days ago

      this goes for pretty much every single chat app out there. most of the popular ones are proprietary and go through private servers.

      privacy is important kids.

  • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    602 days ago

    i use linux and don’t have family or friends or get any kind of medical care ☺️ checkmate

  • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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    424 hours ago

    Dude, I can’t even demand my health care insurance cover anesthesia for a procedure. Demanding anything from the government or a corporation is absolutely pointless at the moment.