There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig...

  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    This defeatist attitude, as well as "all-or-nothing" one, is one of the major privacy enemies by itself.

    modern cars

    You can not own a car at all, have an older one (which, granted, is not quite a universal longterm option), or from wht I've seen in discussions - depending on the model, a lot of them can have the telematics units disconnected.

    phones

    Not using a smartphone, leaving it at home or using a Faraday cage (same goes for a dumbphone), using Lineage/Graphene/whatever on it.

    credit cards

    Cash. Even in a lot of online stores (the smaller ones, not large universal Amazon-like) I've shopped at you can order delivery to the store's office (which is usually at no extra cost) and pay with cash.

    Yes, there are a lot of areas where you have lost. But that doesn't mean you should give up on everything at once then. Privacy is not binary, it is a spectrum.

    • TFO Winder@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      People in USA take pride in using cashless modes.

      I don't understand the flex. You are literally paying commission to a private company for every transaction as well as a permanent record of the purchase in company database linked with so many personally identifiable details.