Privacy

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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.

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Glovo fined five million euros by the Italian DPA for tracking rider's position outside of work and using profiling to assign shifts (reversing.works)

submitted 4 days ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's why you use a privacy-focused ROM with advanced permission controls or a separate work phone.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure an overworked rider struggling to get to the end of the month has time and money to spend on this just to get a basic right protected. Individual solutions to systemic problems never work.