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Google is silently linking phone numbers across accounts — the privacy risks and how to stop them
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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Once they have the data its over. You cant un-collect data in this day and age. There is no assurance that it isn't retained and sold, legally or illegally. I don't care about changing settings. If its a default setting, it is too late to opt out, they already have done it.
We need a digital bill of rights. We need a digital bill of rights. We need a goddamn digital bill of rights for our modern age that was inconceivable when the constitution was written.
we will not get that until we kill a few tech billionaires and their families. then do a lot of lobbying.
and if we've killed a few, there's no reason to jot kill the rest and fullybliberate our shit.
This is kinda how socialist/communist revolutions go, btw ;). A reminder that Cuba was successful until the USA fucked everything.
that is why I said it. though I sincerely hope we could organize our communism a... no I don't. I have no hope at all, we will think of something worse.