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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When did you guys start your privacy journey? How did you find out about the data stealing stuff? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Entirely accidentally. My clinical colleague had an "odd looking" laptop screen. It was Ubuntu. He's a genius level clever lad, and after some questions, he helped me to set up dual boot on my windows machine. Within 5-months, that was an Ubuntu only machine. Now on Debian, still can't do anything much more than basic with the terminal, but the roads led here very naturally.