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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FTC: Amazon/Ring workers illegally spied on users of home security cameras (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by LittleParticles@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Oh look, that thing they said definitely wasn't happening was happening...

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's so crazy to me that people will install spying devices in their homes that X number of random faraway people can access and they will PAY to do it. Even if everything is 100% honorable and well-run initially, most everything changes given enough time.