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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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"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (boingboing.net)

submitted 1 week ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s probably wrong to assume that the general public will be sensitive enough to privacy to force companies to compete on that terrain.

But it’s a fascinating topic and I hope to see it in practice at some point.

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

It’s just too slow , hopefully it gets much faster.