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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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‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools (www.theguardian.com)

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

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Do Americans really want this crap? I can't believe that we don't hold our governments accountable.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell, even the fact that the term "African American" was invented because "black" was considered offensive. Judgement was baked right in (or at least assumed to be by enough that this somehow got popular) to using their skin colour as a descriptor.

Which then led to many people being called "African American" despite having no connection to either Africa or America.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This. That Black and Negro are considered offensive is baffling in comparison to White and Brown (this one isn't in the same status than White though so it might be used offensively by some racist mouth shitter).