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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Why does my calculator need a privacy policy? It's a calculator! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by anti_antidote to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Crash reporting, probably.

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They gonna rat you out to the feds if you divide by zero.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@kibiz0r @anti_antidote Most likely yeah. Though there certainly could be more granular usage data collected as well. This is what trackers are known to be present in Google calculator: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/422633/

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