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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi. I recently had some issues with my lemmy client which made me accidentally post the exact same thing here twice. The posts were about privacy on my school issued computer. I could have made it more clear, but I wanted privacy from the companies that make their spyware not from the school that owns the computer. Anyway, as of now one post has more than 40 upvotes and less than 5 down. The other has 10 up and 5 down as well as significantly less helpful and more critical comments. My hypothesis is whether the early comments were helpful or critical determined what other people said. I am curios to see what everyone thinks of this.

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[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Drop the topics! Downvotes don't really matter on Lemmy, it's not a karma whoring platform.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know school/work is. Anytime people talk about wanting privacy at school or work people start ranting about how you don’t have an expectation of privacy at school or work. If we lived in a world where you didn’t have an expectation of privacy on the toilet that wouldn’t make you wrong for wanting it.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

people start ranting about how you don’t have an expectation of privacy at school or work.

That my dear, is patent bullshit. Anyone who does this is absolutely 100% WRONG and you should not be shy about it. Tell them to stfu and block them if needed.

You always have a basic expectation and right of privacy. What actually changes, is "what invasions of that privacy is common and accepted as necessary". 95% of the time you do have every right to be aggrieved, pissed, upset, and perfectly right to have a discussion about those rights being invaded.

Do not suffer fools who would shout you down to shut your objections down.