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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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Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad to hear that the BYOD trend didn't take off in every country. Many of the companies would act like they were doing you a favor so you didn't have the "hassle" of carrying two phones around. Oh that is a hassle, but this was just them shoveling their costs onto the worker.