To expand on this. If you are talking about anything online it is not private. That doesn't matter if it's in a WhatsApp chat, a telegram chat, a Lemmy post, a Facebook feed, etc. as soon as it hits a computer if someone wants to see it they will. There's just hurdles to get it.

If you want anonymity stop using computers.

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ain’t this the truth.

Here’s story about a serial killer being caught by a floppy drive’s meta data.

https://www.grunge.com/332018/heres-how-the-btk-killer-was-finally-caught/

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Detectives were able to run relatively simple tests to determine that the file had last been saved by a user named "Dennis," and it had been printed using one of the printers at the nearby Christ Lutheran Church.

Maybe the article is badly worded, but it seems like they got metadata from the file, not the floppy disk itself.

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It was either the FAT file or the file itself. The case is famous.

[–] Facebones@reddthat.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Few things more fun than telling people who harp about vaccines being tracking chips that if they're worried about tracking they should ditch their smartphone, and watching them rage.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You mean the always-on GPS-enabled internet-connected microphone and camera which is also likely Bluetooth and NFC beaconing and contains all of my most personal data including my name, contacts, unencrypted chats facilitated by major cell phone carriers, photos, emails, and other personal files which are also likely synced with a cloud service operated by major multi-national corporations, and also stores biometric data such as facial recognition, fingerprints, time spent sleeping, and even heart rate and number of steps taken assuming you have "fitness" features enabled?

With those last couple items, these massive companies that regularly share data with law enforcement are literally tracking your every step and nearly every beat of your heart.

Well don't worry about that, I've got Express VPN.

[–] MxM111@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Privacy and anonymity are not the same thing.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're not anonymous online either FYI.

[–] MxM111@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Depends what and how you do it. VPN gives some level of anonymity. TOR even more so. These give you probably greater anonymity than anything else you have in offline live.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me you know nothing about computers.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

The internet is at it’s worst when it’s popular

The Federation of lemmy/mastodon instances is the worst part about it