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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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I just started caring about my own privacy. What apps should i get rid of, why and what can i replace it with? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by prousername@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] DmMacniel 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Depends, do you trust Apple with your privacy? And how about Amazon, do you trust them?

[–] prousername@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well, all my home appliences rely on Alexa. I do trust amazon as i had no issues with it.

About apple, i did opt out from diagnostic data sharing, filled my icloud drive and disabled find my iphone. Tho to be honest, i had this iphone for 2 years now and havent found a reason to switch yet. (iPhone 12)

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should not trust Amazon. Multiple Ring privacy failures, including giving video footage to police without consent, Amazon employees watching Ring video footage without consent, then there's stuff like Sidewalk that uses your home network as part of a mesh network, collection of biometric days via palm readers at Whole Foods for checkout, which they then use for their Amazon One service that they sell to businesses to verify age and identity, the whole "AI powered" Just Walk Out tech in physical Amazon stores that turned out to be not AI at all but a bunch of Indian subcontractors watching video cameras, etc, etc, etc...

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

I would say Alexa is a big one:

https://time.com/5568815/amazon-workers-listen-to-alexa/