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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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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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[–] scoutfdt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Suddenly, the perk of being given a phone at work is not as good as it might seem.

Since when is a work phone a perk. They have horrible battery performance, only function between 9 and 5 and call quality is absolute fuckin shit.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Me over here having to provide my own work phone because BYOD. At least it's my old phone I upgraded from, so the cost is already sunk.

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