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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What's more important to you a free internet or your Internet privacy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by Sackeshi@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It's no secret that we trade our information for access to the Internet. So what do you prefer a subscription based Internet with privacy protection or a free internet with companies allowed to take and sell your data

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[–] Ryick@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

On every level from the connection to the internet to the services provided, an option to pay for a service already built and maintained by others or to build and maintain yourself with all software being open source, meaning the service or connection provided by all others utilizes the same software anyone else can build and maintain themselves.