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Cake day: April 12th, 2024
  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How do I use Istagram as private as possible?
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    4 days ago

    Meta & privacy are like oil & water. The only absolute here is that there is no privacy in meta products.

    If someone is interested in privacy communities they’ll listen to all angles, even the absurd & absolutist, so that they can learn more about privacy, which is the whole point of joining the community. The attitude in your comment is actually the total turn off. Way to be open-minded & be willing to engage in constructive conversation.

  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.socialtoPolitics@beehaw.org•U.S. Government Agencies Flooded with Information Requests: Have Government Employees Mentioned Climate Change, Voting or Gender Identity? The Heritage Foundation Wants to Know.
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    4 days ago

    Bookbinder also pointed out that inundating agencies with requests can interfere with the government’s ability to function. “It’s OK to make FOIA requests,” said Bookbinder, who acknowledged that CREW has also submitted its share of requests. “But if you purposely overwhelm the system, you can both cause slower response to FOIAs … and you can gum up other government functions.”

    Indeed, a government worker who processes FOIAs for a federal agency told ProPublica that the volume of requests from Heritage interfered with their ability to do their job. “Sometimes they come in at a rate of one a second,” said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The worker said they now spend a third of their work time processing requests from Heritage, including some that seek communications that mention the terms “Biden” and “mental” or “Alzheimer’s” or “dementia” or “defecate” or “poop.”

    Wow this is quite an interesting read 😵‍💫 we should inundate these 3 assholes w some major spam

  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How good you feel good about your privacy using apps such as Signal?
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    16 days ago

    Took years to get all the ppl I care about on signal & now the effort was definitely worth the reward.

    Why don’t you feel comfortable on signal? Honestly it’s worked out for the best in my use case bc I have ppl that use android, iOS, windows, Linux & macOS, so it’s great to not have to deal with shit media quality or messages not going through bc of all the different operating systems. It’s E2EE so I’m not too worried about mass surveillance within my signal groups.

    Also, iOS back door? I must have missed that. Haven’t seen any news about that.