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submitted 2 days ago by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Or have to go through great lengths to escape.

In my country you can't buy any medicine without showing your ID... I mean, you technically can, but if you are registered they "give" like an 80% discount, so everyone thinks it's a great deal, not realizing that's the normal price, they are just pretending you can still go and buy a simple cold medicine without sharing your ID, phone, email, and street address with the drug store and whoever they decide to sell that information to, you just have to pay absurdly more. Yeah, you can lie about all the other information, but not really about your ID number. Probably soon, to get the "discount", you are going to have to verify your email or phone number as well.

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[-] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry, *your* president, not mine. I don't live in the US.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Doesn't matter he seems to have lots of power over the other countries. As everyone wants access to their money.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

nobody wants their money, but we do want to be left alone by the empire.

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

(If you're ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then... I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don't know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it's too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you're not, so I'm not recommending anything.)

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