this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
793 points (98.9% liked)
Privacy
31981 readers
333 users here now
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- 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
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I really hope I'm wrong and you're right here! I agree with you entirely in terms of what should be allowed, if it isn't already allowed. And I definitely hope you're correct. I haven't recently requested a data export from my languishing Matrix account, but I might give it another go to see what kind of data is stored on my home server.
I've had to deal with this on the data collection end, and it's a PITA to build in the mechanisms to fully follow the law. If you're an EU resident, and especially if the server is in the EU or has to follow EU agreements, then they'd risk some quite high penalties if they didn't follow it.