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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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Why are so many companies updating their privacy policies recently? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have received emails about updates to privacy policies from at least 5 companies yesterday. What is going on? Has government done something? Is it a scheduled thing?

Edit- As most companies have started messing with data for AI training, I have proceeded to delete my accounts with them. I should have done this a long time back.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know. I redacted reddit comments and deleted the account. I have moved away (not completely) from big tech and towards FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While this is good, everything you say here and ever said on reddit are absolutely in a database that is being formatted and scraped. These are all public forums. Assume you're being tracked, fingerprinted and profiled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't use reddit, but I've always wondered why lemmy is any different. I trust the lemmy devs don't scrape for data but since everything here is public whats stopping some malicious person from scraping every lemmy comment ever?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Nothing but if a Lemmy instance decides to do something bad others can defederate from it and the users have the ability to move to another.

It is therefore more reliable than commercial equivalents.

The only privacy benefit I see is that the servers and clients don't sell your data or track which buttons are pressed. Though if the wrong instance/client is used that could still conceiably be problem.