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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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Shitty Life Pro Tip: If you can't easily delete an account, try a GDPR Data Request! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

With accounts that are less data-miney, you can replace all your account details (name, email addy, region, etc.) with gibberish and wait for it all to update, and then replace your password so not even you can get into it.

If it's more data-miney and you are willing to put in a few months / years of maintenance, you can trickle in the gibberish and false data until it's thoroughly poisoned.