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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to 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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Can I delete my Lemmy account and just vanish? (lemmy.today)

submitted 18 hours ago by admin@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I like sharing my thoughts and struggles here, but I don't want it to be a permanent digital footprint and wish to delete all the posts and comments one day.

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 7 points 10 hours ago

I’ll bet someone has copies of those 4 episodes. I know I have random things downloaded and stored (mostly music and Git repos) that are no longer discoverable on the internet. You just need to find the right data hoarder.

And I guess that’s part of what is meant by if you post it on the internet it’s there forever all it means is you never know who has a backup