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You have power of attorney for yourself. Open source tools can run on your own systems and represent you.
by Sephr 3y ago
You have power of attorney for yourself. Open source tools can run on your own systems and represent you.
- Zuiii 3y agoExactly. What we really need is a public, open list of all tracker companies that anyone can contribute to (like adblock lists). What we do with that list is up to us and our governments.
- jart 3y agoIf the open source software interacts with the data brokers as you, then how would it do that without giving up even more of your personal information? Services like Optery also lose the ability to remove your information from a data broker if you have a direct account with them. So you better hope that open source maintainer doesn't lose interest after a while, since if they do, you'll be permanently doomed to logging into hundreds of broker sites each year to refresh your opt-out.
- Sephr 3y ago> how would it do that without giving up even more of your personal information Open source doesn't mean hosted by a third party. You would run the software on your own computer.