Have them install duck duck go on their phones and turn on the app tracking protection and then they can see the data collected by companies they have never heard of. It will show how they try to collect your full name, email, and exact gps coordinates.
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
8 points (100.0% liked)
Privacy
31892 readers
558 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
If it's worth $3 to you, I recommend "Take This Lollipop".
It used to be free, but I guess they gotta eat too.
It's basically a creepy interactive movie that uses a person's own personal data to scare them about privacy and what they put on the net.
IMO the problem is rather "What they gonna do with my data? Show me better ads? Nice."
I've met a ton of people that just don't care. The problem often isn't that they don't know companies are collecting a shit-ton of data. That's really not new or isolated to tech companies.
"If I get better ads and it saves me time, what do I care?"
"I'm getting something for free. What does it matter if they know?"
"It's too much work to avoid"
Just send them the new report on Nissan of the Mozilla foundation 😂
Not just Nissan so many of the car companies do this.
Here is the Mozilla listing https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/
Way back in the early days of Justin/Twitch, if people wouldn't listen about their data security being important, what I did was simply look up their home addresses and phone numbers and texted them the information.
Had them get on fixing their digital footprint quite fast.
Yeah OP, just dox them, what could go wrong?
I take it reading isn't your strongsuit?
I rather clearly stated I sent their own info to themselves on their own private phones, I didn't dox them, you dumbass.
I misread, but at least I'm not a dick to strangers online for no reason.
Like, say, accusing someone of doxxing people?
It was a comment made it jest. Would adding "/s" have made a difference to you?
Show them exactly what the company says the collect in plane language not legalese.
Haha plane language. Like whats up my Airbus?