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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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Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's even worse as an associate. They make us sign up for some social media I never use, download apps on our phones, and make us give them our handprints for a machine to take out our tills. And we're getting face scanned by cameras all day. Dystopian nightmare and it makes me feel ashamed to have accepted the job here.

I use GOS and therefore believe that I have some level of protection on the WiFi level based off of that, and I have their apps on a separate profile but it's getting tougher on privacy here at Walmart.

Edit: That's also why I have no pictures of me in my socials and deleted my Facebook, Instagram, and twitter, so they shouldn't have too many ways to market to me aside through my debit and credit cards possibly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Revoke the data privileges of the app on your phone. That will effectively neuter it, while you can show them it's there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I have all of their apps on a separate profile. One app I do sadly need data for to check my schedule and look up prices of things.