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  • Discussion: Your recent privacy wins?

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  • Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can't make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there

  • If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Depends where you live. I'm in Australia and phone companies aren't allowed to activate a number without tying it to an ID. So criminals just use stolen IDs and regular people don't get privacy. Also YMMV but virtually every service that needs phone verification won't accept VoIP numbers anymore

  • If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Tutamail is the only service I know of that still doesn't need anything but I don't expect it to last. Email providers that don't make you verify anything end up being used for spam and then websites just start blocking their domain from being used for account creation

  • UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

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  • It's just a bullshit game of political pride at this point. Anti-privacy pundits criticised the UK gov for "caving to the US" after they dropped the previous order so now they're doubling down on trying to take away their citizens privacy in the name of standing up to the US. How brave. Not that the US gov gives a shit about privacy either

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    'Dumbphones' Are Not Private

  • Police drone tracks Walmart theft suspect in real time

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  • Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – Pre-Order Trailer

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  • Lame that there's no Mac version. If the original game could do it in 2009 with a smaller dev team why not now?

  • Cirrus app dev informing the app will stop working on certified android devices in '26/'27

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  • It's also absurdly lacking in features compared to Android/iOS (never mind app support) and the dev team is so small they can barely maintain existing device support. VoLTE is still unsupported in the majority of devices. The OS doesn't even have basic security features like drive encryption

    I like UBPorts a lot but I think the alternative/FOSS smartphone market is too fragmented between it and SailfishOS/PostMarketOS that none of them will emerge with enough adoption to be real competitors to the iOS/Android duopoly. Didn't mean to be overly negative. Just my two cents

  • What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?

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  • Security/privacy. With a dumb phone you're restricted to standard phone calls, SMS messages, and (sometimes) email. All of which are ancient standards that weren't built with security in mind. Your network provider likely keeps logs on your calls and texts

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    Kmart Australia Illegally Used Mass-Facial Recognition in Stores

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-09-18/kmart-facial-recognition-technology-privacy-commissioner/105785802

  • Australians soon facing age checks when viewing adult websites [& search engines, social media, file sharing, etc, etc]

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  • This is the real problem. As more and more countries push for laws like this I think sites will just adopt blanket age-verification for simplicity's sake instead of having to constantly keep track of which countries/states in countries require it