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I’m not sure of your personal skills, abilities, and background, so this is more of a general call to action: Why not create an alternative? I’ve often heard p
by lumb63 3y ago
I’m not sure of your personal skills, abilities, and background, so this is more of a general call to action: Why not create an alternative?
I’ve often heard people talk of a lack of alternatives to certain services, so they use them begrudgingly, or boycott them at large personal cost. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is nothing that I’m aware of that says banks or digital service providers need to collect any more information than is necessary to provide the service they offer. It seems to me that, at least in a this niche community there is a desire for privacy-respecting products and services. A company that oriented itself around meeting that demand would be, I suspect, very lucrative.
- thfuran 3y ago>There is nothing that I’m aware of that says banks or digital service providers need to collect any more information than is necessary to provide the service they offer And what about all the information that is necessary to provide the service they offer, like the real-time location of everyone's cell phone and who calls who when and for how long or all the DNS requests? Sure, a company doesn't have to retain this information and market it for resale, but providing these sorts of services necessarily entails access to a lot of information that most people would consider private, but which the third party doctrine says isn't.