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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.

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 :)

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restingboredfacetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlEnglish·6 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

(www.wired.com)

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DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers

(www.wired.com)

restingboredfacetoPrivacy@lemmy.mlEnglish·6 months ago

cross-posted to:
technology@beehaw.org

Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.

Curious about everyone’s thoughts on this.

Archive link : https://archive.is/Ql81V

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In general, shudder at the thought of supporting the anti-broker industry. Data brokers can play both sides. Guest the only solution is legislation?