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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
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
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Starting today Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy. (tutanota.com)

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

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Companies operate at a loss in certain markets all the time in order to keep competition out. Even if they're not profitable in Norway, they don't want a Norwegian social network muscling in on their territory.

"Competition is for losers." - Peter Thiel, first investor in Facebook and mentor of Mark Zuckerberg