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Appreciate the context. I like this take as well, it brings up questions about what "ownership" really means. Where do you land on privacy then, do you go radic
by istingray 5y ago
Appreciate the context. I like this take as well, it brings up questions about what "ownership" really means. Where do you land on privacy then, do you go radically open or radically closed, something else?
- hackinthebochs 5y agoTo me ownership means I have exclusive control over who gets to use something and for what purpose. If I own my data, someone processing this data on my behalf has no right or obligation to scan it for illegal content. The fact that this data sometimes sits on hard drives owned by another party just isn't a relevant factor. Presumably I still own my car when it sits in the garage at the shop. They have no right to use it outside of purposes explicitly agreed upon. I don't see abstract data as any different. Personally, I strongly favor privacy. I avoid all cloud services that don't involve local encryption. I have an old model rooted android phone with two firewalls. All apps have internet access blocked by default. I stay as anonymous as possible on social media. And so on. Recently my group at work moved our repositories to Github Enterprise. It made me uncomfortable. I voiced my concerns but they fell on deaf ears.
- istingray 5y ago"Presumably I still own my car when it sits in the garage at the shop." Brilliant, and illustrates how far off we are. I'll be scaling my level of surveillance following your lead.