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Privacy rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I read a lot of / am highly into cypherpunk ideology. I work hard to protect my privacy.

But I also have shitty bottom rung / entry level jobs. ALL of them use apps with atrocious privacy policies for group messaging and posting schedules.

A) I am a cashier. Why do you need to be able to reach me 24/7?

B) It makes all my effort trying to keep a minimal digital footprint moot when I am forced to share tons of personal info to register. And I am also required to get the app.

C) No corporate manager who also hates their job is trying to listen to my diatribe about why "WhatsApp" is evil.

I am seriously considering buying a prepaid flip phone and pretending that's my "real" phone for my next job. That's the only solution I can think of. But I just hate that it's a problem at every $10/ hour job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I currently have a old samsung that im using as a work phone ive installed lineageOS and its been great so far, i just create burner accounts for anything my work wants me to use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll look into that!