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how do i prep for the digital surveillance crisis worsening? (nord.pub)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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the KIDS act may or may not pass the US senate, the EU is planning a social media ban, chat control might pass, etc.... what exactly do i have to do to prep for all this?

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago

I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I'll tell you what I personally am doing:

  • emailing my representatives over and over
  • emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can't do much about the work ones..)
  • getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
  • learning to flash custom ROMs
  • testing said custom ROMs
  • digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don't use)
  • use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
  • testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
  • stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn't have age verification or one where it's easy enough to rip out
  • downloaded "linux from scratch", but I'll admit I haven't read it yet
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