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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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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data (theintercept.com)

submitted 8 months ago by einat2346 to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

The best compromise might be similar to how it works currently

Right now you enter your username, and then a number is randomly generated but you can change it manually.

Randomly generate both, and allow the user to change both