Privacy Guides

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In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.

This is a community for sharing news about privacy, posting information about cool privacy tools and services, and getting advice about your privacy journey.

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Perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If this is legal, then hacking it to take it out should be legal.

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[–] PleasantAura@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago*

No, because if every piece of your entire existence isn't dedicated to making profit for the upper class, your life is worthless, and anything that devalues the profit they could make from you is stealing.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong, just expressing frustration at the current state of the world.

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