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Daniel_Deghaye@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

what made you get into internet privacy?

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what made you get into internet privacy?

Daniel_Deghaye@sh.itjust.works to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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    I got key-logged by an abusive parent when I was 14. If that doesn’t make you take digital privacy and security seriously, nothing else will.

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      deleted by creator

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  • MadMax@sh.itjust.works
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    PRISM, the American empire mass espionage program

  • Landmammals@lemmy.world
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    I hate ads.

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    Piracy

  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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    I thought I was doing great protecting my information. Then a former employer was hacked and everything is out there including my mother’s maiden name.

    But hey I got one year of credit monitoring for free… helpful when my credit has been locked since forever…

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    Initally Facebook, but then also Google and Microsoft.

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    I was actually praising Google for some reason when I was still in elementary school. I discovered Firefox, uBlock Origin and other stuff then got into privacy at the age of 14.

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    Windows 10

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    I wanted the freedom of Android/Linux, then privacy was easy

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    because i hate injustice, and one day figured that surveillance enables imbalance of power, therefore injustice.

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    Working at an online video ad server, which was subsequently acquired by Kabletown, with a K.

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    Big tech made me do it. I wish it were the standard procedure.

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    The uncovering of the magnitudes of the privacy violations of PRISM around 2013.

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