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Since ProtonMail was mentioned in a context, I wonder what is the fate of the Proton infrastructure in UK, also having encrypted storage of various items simila
by mihaaly 2y ago
Since ProtonMail was mentioned in a context, I wonder what is the fate of the Proton infrastructure in UK, also having encrypted storage of various items similar to iCloud. And the alike (Tresorit, ...). Are they the next?
Although it is only partially parallel topic but my current pet peeve about the generic true uninterest of data safety in the UK is the practice of property agents requesting full set of data only necessary at the time of contract - or not even then, like the name of your children - just to start talk about viewing a rental property. Not for the viewing, not for applying for tenancy, no, before even talking about if there is available timeslots for viewing. First reply from them: fill this (very long) form. Some even ask for recent credit check reports uploaded on sending in interest for viewing opportunities. And people comply on masses without apparent hesitation. Years of degrading practice (8 years ago it was much different and less privacy intrusive) means several hundrends of thousands (millions?) people's deep personal data is flowing around in unencrypted emails or forms stored in the third party system (not even at the property agents) the agents dedicate for this purpose, very very fragmented in procedure and solutions and granularity. Apparently there is no objection of the masses as this is a practice property agents escalated to this level claiming "industry practice" when trying to complain. Feels like being alone, refusing, then being refused - I know, I am problematic not handing over all my data on first ask. I wonder what the Information Commissioner's Office will say about the matter. I reported one of the many cases. Only out of curiosity as the matter will be mute not only because of the 16 weeks turnaround for comment - 8 are already passed, and by then we will be out of the UK, for other reasons too - which is awfully slow for anyone affected but by the extent of uninterest for privacy from the UK masses. Property agents are just one tiny part of the pattern actually, asking for your data as the first move is a generic thing from almost all services I came accross. A representative example: - How much would this cost? - What is your name, phone number, address and email address? - the question comes instead of an answer despite that the price depends not the slightest on those data. And this is working this way for very long time. I have a bit of scepticism about if the UK population would ever fight back - risking put into the group of pedofiles by public opinion. I can imagine more arguing for it. As 'Good people have nothing to hide' principle. The "Get Involved" links are for the idealistic ones alone.