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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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PSA: you can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude. That would be bad 😱 (tech.michaelaltfield.net)

submitted 6 months ago by maltfield@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs.


Nightmare on Lemmy Street (A Fediverse GDPR Horror Story)

This is (also) a horror story about accidentally uploading very sensitive data to Lemmy, and the (surprisingly) difficult task of deleting it.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago

Well anything you upload to the Internet is very hard to delete. It's just on Lemmy it's more obvious. Anyways gtk admins can delete stuff