this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
103 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

37712 readers
342 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then don't post your identity online.

Everything I post here is public. All of my information is public, whether there's some flag to say that the info is private or not. It's still public to the admins that run the server, and I don't trust them any more than I trust some rando Internet person scraping data.

Everybody seems to forget this, and pretend that large corpos are somehow obligated to protect your privacy.

[–] Skyhighatrist@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

But they're collecting more than just what you post. Have you seen the permissions they requested. Do you really want them to be able to track your location at all times? Or to access your phone's health information so they can sell that to advertisers and others?