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I am one of the developers, so I wanted to respond. Imagine you want to search for a coffee or restaurant nearby. You can now use an app which cares about your
by dowem 6y ago
I am one of the developers, so I wanted to respond. Imagine you want to search for a coffee or restaurant nearby. You can now use an app which cares about your privacy by encrypting your location, and encrypting the intent of your food search (maybe you want to seek out only italian, chinese, mexican, or coffee shop places) and the app, sends that encrypted data to the cloud to retrieve an encrypted response back wherein the app, nor the backend service could mine anything about you or your preferences. It just satisfied your request. In such a scenario the app would likely be paid, but the service wouldn't use you as the product to grab all your information...
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoThank you. But, and I respect the work you and others are doing, this sounds very much like other technological solutions in search of a problem - the most obvious is bitcoin replacing fiat money. I think most of society would be happy with regulatory changes. Preventing companies from exploiting personal data is fairly simple in a democratic legal framework. There are yes governments and states where democracy does not exist, but in that case they simply won't let me use such a search service anyway, so it's dubious the technology would be beneficial there. Some time in the past decade I realised that software has only limited ability to change the world - it simply does not have the leverage to overcome all the politics of the world. If we want utopia, we must learn Judo to use the weight of the world against itself. I remain optimistic that we can make this world better with these amazing new technologies, but I fear they cannot succeed on their own. But I hope you can prove me wrong !