Privacy

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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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New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music (pitchfork.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aside from the main privacy issue, it's also stupid that this can be patented.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I just took away mic permissions from it and it doesn't want to log in anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

That should be everyone's cue to uninstall and cancel the paid account. In the end, only profit matters to them so that's the only way to send a message.