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 19 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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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's interesting that this is kicking up some controversy. Personally I've held similar thoughts since the time of AOL, that once it leaves your system it's no longer in your control. You can ask people to delete it, and maybe they did, or maybe they deleted the one copy but not the cache version, or maybe just didn't and lied about it. I've actually accidentally found stuff I thought was long lost when I decided to just mess around with some data recovery tools and pulled a bunch of pictures back from a drive I didn't remember them ever being on.

One of my kids I saw take a picture of a snapchat with another phone. Asked what they where doing and it was explained that if you do a regular screenshot it notified the other person, so this was how they kept a copy secretly. So with that in mind, you never know who has copies of what that was posted.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 7 hours ago

It’s interesting that this is kicking up some controversy.

Yeah. You'd think that people on the fediverse, protocols that lend themselves to mass-scraping, would understand that it's out of their hands once they post it.