Krock @krock@social.privacytools.io

Tell me what you think of this new product idea..
You upload all your contact details, business contacts, and work history. Your contacts upload their contact details and work history as well. They cannot see your contact information, and you cannot see theirs. You must only communicate through our platform now. We then mine all this data including your communications and use it to predict futures and sell it to recruiters, marketers, and employers. The new product will be called Lockedin.com ;)

@freddy People are being divided into the programmers and the programmed. The programmed drones/sheep who buy these 'smart'(dumb) devices are many.

One of the wonderful side affects of de-googling and privatizing my digital life is that robots no longer tell me what to read, watch, listen, and buy. Now I choose and seek out what I want. Liberation!

@redcoqui All of that and more. Once I found privacy tools, I realized I had been self censoring myself for a decade. I knew what was going on even though I did not realize how far it would go. Now I imagine what is coming in the future and speak about it.

@soudk https://deletefacebook.com/ is a decent start. You cannot download the contact details of your friends. Forcing Facebook and Linkedin to enable this would be a good antitrust remedy, but don't hold your breath waiting for it.

@freddy People should acquaint themselves with Palantir's product offerings to understand what can be done with data collected on us. The SW has been used for dubious purposes, but it is a suite of on-prem data science tools that their customers choose how to use. Without these advanced tools, governments and companies struggle to build the functionality themselves.

@Wetrix I like your take on it. I was speaking metaphorically about cloud computing.

@thedeltaflyer @joshbdoc @flockingbird I will commit to setting up a server when this is ready. I am more of a back-end developer, and will help if I can. I would love to completely divorce MSFT. Speaking of CRM, Salesforce is pretty much owned by Google now.

Many clouds in the sky is beautiful. When they coalesce into megaclouds, run for cover.⛈️

Before giving online data, I ask myself:
1. What am I providing?
2. Who can see it?
3. What can they do with it?
When in doubt, don't let it out.

I am writing a report about the infosec risks with my companies' SAAS CRM provider moving its data center to Google Cloud. I am looking for good technical resources that can explain how the metadata could be used by Google to game us and other companies using this CRM solution. Please send me any relevant docs or your own ideas.

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat Let's help them then to correct for future episodes but encourage the work. I have only seen a few and see they are targeted more for noobs. Going into too much detail about every option will confuse and discourage some people. Practical options are needed for many. I can only comment on one point here before hitting word limit. Graphene is for me with Librem next, but I flashed Calyx onto my family members' phones. It was the best option for them and their place.

@Wetrix This is a great opportunity for the Fediverse to grow. Tell your Aussie friends about the alternatives.

@freddy Of course it should be banned, but it is the biggest industry and encouraged by governments who are the biggest customers. We will be in the trenches for a while.

With a Linux system and hardened privacy settings on Firefox, I seem to have a unique fingerprint that I can't seem to make more general. I screwed up and logged into Zuckbook to provide some disinformation and I now realize I should have done that with a dedicated browser. I want to stay on Firefox.If I have some other people logon to Zuckbook with my browser, do you think that might confuse their identity management?

@ThreeBadgersInATrenchcoat I am sure they get some things wrong, but we need popularizers of privacy concepts that can provide entertaining videos that the masses will watch and will arouse in further interest in the topic.

I think we need specifics about what they get wrong to have a proper discussion.