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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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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
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Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 months ago by threeganzi@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Fish@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Now I'm glad that I made disposable email addresses for most of my accounts a couple of months ago. With all the data breaches, it seems that email aliases are essential. I use SimpleLogin.

For the sake of simplicity, I also bought a domain to use for all those email addresses