74
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
74 points (98.7% liked)
Asklemmy
43536 readers
2053 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
People have already answered well enough though many of them mention IP addresses and you said you were non techy so wanted to add this
Giving away your IP address is not that big a deal, you do it every time you visit a website without a VPN or connect to pretty much any web service
(You still shouldn't post it publicly of course but it's unlikely your employer is going to dox you, and if they do it's probably illegal)
Their employer don't need their IP address to be able to dox their location. They likely have their physical address already. IP address locations are self-reported, unreliable and usually onyl point to a city or a wider area.
Not if you cross reference the IP with data leaks on the deep web, revealing way more or other personal info
You know you don't know what you're talking about when you call it "deep web".
you mean I should've called it the "dark web"? I just wanted to imply that "dark web" is a subset of "deep web" in the sense that it is not searchable by regular search engines, thereby including "dark web" to the "deep web" set. But regardless, leak dumps can be found in both places, right?
They already know everything about me. I just want to be left alone to do my job without being tracked for how many minutes i spend working from home.
I don't imagine the app can do that anyway unless you explicitly give it permission to run in background at all times