I have received emails about updates to privacy policies from at least 5 companies yesterday. What is going on? Has government done something? Is it a scheduled thing?

Edit- As most companies have started messing with data for AI training, I have proceeded to delete my accounts with them. I should have done this a long time back.

  • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Nothing but if a Lemmy instance decides to do something bad others can defederate from it and the users have the ability to move to another.

    It is therefore more reliable than commercial equivalents.

    The only privacy benefit I see is that the servers and clients don’t sell your data or track which buttons are pressed. Though if the wrong instance/client is used that could still conceiably be problem.