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how do i prep for the digital surveillance crisis worsening? (nord.pub)

submitted 3 days ago by shioprince@nord.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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the KIDS act may or may not pass the US senate, the EU is planning a social media ban, chat control might pass, etc.... what exactly do i have to do to prep for all this?

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[-] yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I'll tell you what I personally am doing:

emailing my representatives over and over
emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can't do much about the work ones..)
getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
learning to flash custom ROMs
testing said custom ROMs
digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don't use)
use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn't have age verification or one where it's easy enough to rip out
downloaded "linux from scratch", but I'll admit I haven't read it yet

this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026

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