Privacy

3226 readers

230 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!

Be civil and no prejudice
Don't promote big-tech software
No apathy and defeatism for privacy (i.e. "They already have my data, why bother?")
No reposting of news that was already posted
No crypto, blockchain, NFTs
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

[email protected]

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Cross-posted from "Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content" by @[email protected] in [email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/43948771

Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Can you give concrete examples?

Sure! You know those concrete pads with metal boxes on them outside of most buildings? Most of your data probably runs through something like that, which is entirely owned and operated by complete strangers to you, who could very easily be recording a copy of all the data which passes through the physical machines they own and operate.