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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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"Stopping a company you distrust from profiting off your personal data shouldn’t require tinkering with hidden settings and installing browser extensions. Instead, your data should be private by default. That’s why we need strong federal privacy legislation that puts you—not Meta—in control of your information.

Without strong privacy legislation, Meta will keep finding ways to bypass your privacy protections and monetize your personal data. Privacy is about more than safeguarding your sensitive information—it’s about having the power to prevent companies like Meta from exploiting your personal data for profit."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

#SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@[email protected] or we could just... Live without meta. Not like it is indispensable.

Laws are good, but they are failing us. This is why women are rightfully mad and people cheer in the street when a CEO get shot in the back.

Trump is in power now, I believe at this point, direct resistance will be more efficient.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] "Meta’s tracking tools are embedded in millions of websites and apps, so you can’t escape the company’s surveillance just by avoiding or deleting Facebook and Instagram. Meta’s tracking pixel, found on 30% of the world’s most popular websites, monitors people’s behavior across the web and can expose sensitive information, including financial and mental health data."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] correct, this is why I want to create a new community search engine based on trust (see the no tracker rule)

https://codeberg.org/ditchgithub/CommunitySearch