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 :)

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I appreciate and respect your honesty regarding your real name, but given the world we live in, I would still recommend you hide it here. I still stand corrected.

I really don't see how authoritarian regimes would be affected negatively (for them) by transparency?

Regarding Wikipedia, I think a lot of contributors would hesitate to give their real name. If it was the norm, maybe the usages would be different, but I think I wouldn't have personally contributed if I knew that people I know could find my works there. And I haven't even done anything weird.

For banking, secrecy is a cornerstone of the system, even IRL. What the banks manage to do IRL would still need to be done on the Internet. Public transactions IRL is unthinkable and it would be online

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[+] garbage_world@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

For banking, people just don't want other people to know what they do with their money, and how much money they have. Culturally I think it would be very hard to change. Not talking about dildos and such, but what you buy is really a window into your private life. When you start having children for instance, privacy becomes very important.

Thanks for the answers, it's an interesting perspective even if I strongly disagree. I wish people wouldn't downvote without giving their opinion.