Freedom including the core freedom of privacy need to be respected by software: Why free software matters and is a prerequisite for privacy

Privacy means being in control of ones own personal information. It does not mean secrecy but deciding on your own what you share and with whom and what you do not share.
On computers you can only have this control over your data when you have control over your computer. You should be the one deciding what your computer does, what software runs on its processor, what it does with your hardware and what it does with your data.

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