Privacy
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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This would be a great thing to happen; under a Starmer gov't (and any inbound Reform administration) it is not gonna.
Also petition.parliament.uk is a tool created by Westminister to divert energy from real action to signing a petition. If you wanna get involved with doing something like this then look to and support Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, Privacy International etc.
Come on, ban ALL data collection for ads. This will be good for privacy, and for the environment. The internet will save enormous amounts on power and hardware.
This is atleast positive
Brexit left us keeping all the braindead legislature like the fucking paper straws and bottle caps whilst moving towards scrapping the sensible ones like GDPR.
Fucking knobs in govt. since David Cameron payed any attention to Enoch Powell's reincarnation the fascist racist american bootlicking dickhead Farage.
This sounds like a good idea.
Sounds like what we should have been protected from before they put mind parasites in our minds
It's a step into into the right direction.
Doing something late is better than doing nothing at all.
Yes our data is already out there but at least we can make it illegal for them to collect more new data, it probably won't stop them but it's a start.
Yes but I meant it as a recognition that our institutions are failing us, have been failing us for a long time.
Yeah they are.
This is a typical case of that the lawmakers have near 0 IT comprehension unfortunately.
stop crying about it and do something about it then
Hang on, overturning the government any minute now, those elites are really hard to scrape of the asphalt