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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So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing (lemmy.radio)

submitted 2 months ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with "848 of our partners" and "actively scan device details for identification".

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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember when they passed laws protecting our library and video store rental histories instead of letting data brokers hoover up every song you listen to and every news article you read?

[–] makr_alland@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If you're referring to the US' Video Privacy Protection Act, it was passed only because it slightly embarrassed a Supreme Court nominee.

So for there to be half-decent online privacy laws in the US, first someone will have to leak Clarence Thomas' Pornhub search history or something like that.