Privacy

31224 readers

902 users here now

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 :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Should I get one of those shielded wallets? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Not sure this is the absolute best community but it's what comes to mind.

Was watching this: https://youtu.be/S7dWigI7Soc

Say at the gas pump should I be using tap rather than pin code?#

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I would say "yes". I have a rooted Android and it was very easy for me to download and install the software required to scan cards. I did this as an experiment only, I only used this on my own cards to see what information I could get off them from just passing my phone near to them. After doing that I have always used a shielded card holder.

I also never have NFC or Bluetooth running unless I'm actively using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The app NFSee works great. Some of my cards just straight up give the credit card number out wirelessly :facepalm: