Episode 232 - Is privacy futile when your friends and family do not follow your privacy steps?
Added 2024-10-22 20:45:03 +0000 UTCA supporter asked a very pertinent question that affects everyone who is on their privacy journey - what to do about our friends and family members that do not want to follow the privacy steps we have taken? Is that compromising all of our privacy efforts? In today's episode, I propose an answer to this question and suggest multiple actions that can be taken to mitigate the privacy threats coming from our loved ones.
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In this article it would be to get data from Location X https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/phone-tracking-tool-lets-government-agencies-follow-your-every-move/
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-24 21:06:21 +0000 UTCSorry I should clarify. I meant to just gather the data to view it to use it as a social deterrent. E.g. I talk with a friend that has nothing to hide, we go to website example.com, view the friends' data available online through the marketplaces (e.g. what Meta collects and shares). The data is so extensive that the friend then swears he'll never use Meta again. Similar to what Google offers oj their data, but get the raw format to see how extensive it is. So TLDR, how to get hands on advertisers data, and ways to deanonymize to see what's is out there. I hope I'm making more sense
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-24 18:02:09 +0000 UTCAh, I see what you mean. That wouldn't help you. You don't own the data you generate on these apps and service in a sense that would give you exclusive proprietary rights. You pretty much waive all of these rights upon use. So even if you were to buy your own data, other companies could still get them. There are services that will take your money to trace data brokers and delete their records on your profile, but you can do this yourself for free, it just takes some time and effort. If you live in California or EU, then you shouldn't have to worry about that too much though. Let me know if this clears it up a bit.
The Hated One
2024-10-24 17:15:25 +0000 UTCRight, the data that businesses produce. IMO had there been a company that offered you to purchase your own data for a reasonable price, that would drive people to stop this whole data collection business altogether
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-24 16:40:53 +0000 UTCYou mean you want to get your hands on the actual data banks that the government and investigators purchase? I am currently researching a topic on how that data is obtainable, but I don't think that's gonna work for regular citizens.
The Hated One
2024-10-24 16:36:11 +0000 UTCAwesome video, really relatable too! Related video idea: how get your hands on your data through advertisers. I know the police or gov agencies can sometimes simply buy the data without a warrant, and extract what's needed. Are there tools out there to do that? I should probably check the sources to that Apple isn't private video, where you linked studies that show anonymized data isn't anonymous
Hasty Pastry
2024-10-24 05:49:32 +0000 UTCI really appreciate you taking the time to address my concerns and illuminating situations like these. Each time I feel defeated and begin to compromise my own privacy I listen to one of your past episodes or podcasts. There really isn't another privacy advocate like you out there. Not to kiss too much ass, but what you are doing is amazing and you deserve so much more exposure to the masses. I hope those who are in my similar situation can discover they are not hopeless in the quest for privacy freedom. On a side note, I am a retired US Air Force member and wanted to get your opinion on the way we handled secure communication with mobile devices. Before the ultimate downfall (and for a significant time after even) of Blackberry, this was the only secure method government agents would handle sensitive data. Once their security became compromised everyone switched to iPhone exclusively. This included military contractors like Raytheon, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and many others. Why would they choose to use iPhone for such communication & data management and not something homegrown like GrapheneOS or the like? Is it possible to have iPhone be as secure or more so than Graphene? Something seems weird about this fact. The only explanation that makes sense is that Apple provides special services and personnel to specifically meet the needs of this type of information. If so, that means someone would have to be able to audit them (which seems unlikely Apple would allow such a thing). I'm just seeking your opinion on this topic. Thanks again!
Shazbot
2024-10-23 19:10:42 +0000 UTC
