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Feeling like Privacy is a lost war. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by beefpeach@infosec.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So, I recently moved about 6 months ago. Have only given my real address and name to the DMV, Phone Company, Internet, and rental property(obviously knows my real address)

Ran Optery and found out that over 80 data brokers have my legit new address already.

Feeling like privacy is just some kind of wet dream at the moment. I do everything right, I think but no matter what the 4 companies I have given my information too will constantly sell my personal data no matter what.

It’s truly sad the direction America is going towards, all for some more money.

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[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on the Briar claim? Very curious.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Briar shares your hardware's Bluetooth MAC address with your contacts even if you haven't added that contact or connected with that contact using Bluetooth. meaning all your briar contacts even those on groups are storing your MAC address ( a unique device identifier) which makes plausible deniability virtual impossible. I remember reading the devs themselves acknowledge that briar isn't a anonymous chat app (somewhere in their git repo or the wiki or the blog, can't remember where exactly), so beware of this aspect.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I never needed hardcore anonymity but I was always sceptical why people think Briar is anonymous when it uses Bluetooth. Now that I know that the MAC is shared even without using Bluetooth, I'm even more confused. Thanks for the info.