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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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Fauxx Data poisoning for your everyday tracking (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 hours ago by hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.

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[–] f3nyx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

you're kind of giving me a blank slate to talk here so let me hit the biggest point that is tangential to this conversation.

the easiest point for me to make is that if, on your phone, you bought your SIM card (and attached phone number) with payment info that can be tracked to your bank and your real name, your location is compromised whenever that card is online. this is something that the vast majority of privacy enthusiasts either neglect due to lack of knowledge, or cannot afford to remove from their threat profile due to the pervasiveness of cell networks in day to day life.

The most recent example i can give of this being necessary to consider in your privacy posture: In the US, ICE is using this combination of personal information and compromised locations to focus their efforts in neighborhoods with a primarily minority population.