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[–] xChronoZerox@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The post isn't about privacy, if it was, faxing wouldn't be on there. I'd wager a strong guess it's about convenience on one hand while choosing to be inconvenient on the other.

Edit: or maybe it's more about high tech in some sectors and low tech in others, still not about privacy.

[–] ours@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why privacy would mean no fax? Fax is mostly more secure than email.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fax is unencrypted. Encrypted versions apparently exist but that's not what Japan and Germany use.

And that aside my mom regularly gets sensitive patient data via fax at her workplace because the number is one digit off some doctor's (bonus points for the inverse also happening, and her also working with sensitive data). Far less likely to happen with email. At most encrypted fax is equally secure.