What is a common misconception around privacy? - eviltoast

For me its probably the debate regarding using a VPN with tor - Like the tor devs themselves recommend against using a VPN with tor.

Another is also probably the argument of “nothing to hide, nothing to fear”.

  • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If you’ve ever had a contact allow a service to read their contacts, you are in their database.

    If this happens in a professional context, this can be a violation of article 44 of the GDPR. I don’t know where exactly I’m going with this, but at least there are some laws around that, I guess.

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      1 year ago

      And we know how strict these big companies are about voluntary compliance to the GDPR. ;-) I’m glad at least someone is putting in rules against this fuckery but, sadly, once that data is sold to the first outside vendor (Cambridge Analytica, Palantir, etc.) it’s out there and lives on the internet forever, even if the big boys are brought to heel by the EU.

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        Even the ones who actually want to respect the law won’t spend the time to double-check GDPR compliance with every little thing they do.

        Almost everything that’s ever happened is a violation of article 44. In fact, the EU supreme court (I guess you’d call it) declared pretty much all EU-US data transfers from the last 20 years as unlawful. Fun.