this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2025
111 points (100.0% liked)

Privacy

3165 readers
143 users here now

Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.

Rules

PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!

  1. Be civil and no prejudice
  2. Don't promote big-tech software
  3. No apathy and defeatism for privacy (i.e. "They already have my data, why bother?")
  4. No reposting of news that was already posted
  5. No crypto, blockchain, NFTs
  6. No Xitter links (if absolutely necessary, use xcancel)

Related communities:

Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.

founded 8 months ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Mass surveillance everywhere all the time forever, just in case you ever decide to become a terrorist, or plan a robbery, or sell drugs online, or your description matches a suspect, or the cops have reasonable suspicion, or you plan on attending a protest against the government, or you say something bad about the Supreme Leader, or....

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Or something that's fine right now turns out to be punishable by the next administration. Just look at the US to see how that could go wrong fast.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Every politician that supports this is projecting.