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> It it not your chat log. It was never your chat log. You typed characters into Facebook’s chat log, and the chat log is Facebook’s. But... that's just a cyni
by UweSchmidt 12y ago
> It it not your chat log. It was never your chat log. You typed characters into Facebook’s chat log, and the chat log is Facebook’s.
But... that's just a cynical observation of the current, wild-west-style situation of data abuse. Society will slowly grasp the significance of what's going on and restore some sanity, ...right??
- teddyh 12y agoI am convinced that it will only happen if we succeed in making it a political issue. No one company or service can fix this, since all the incentives work towards more surveillance, not less. This type of so-called collective action issue is what politics and lawmaking exist to solve, so it is there a solution must be created.
- vertex-four 12y agoAt the least, those of us who actually care, but don't have infinite amounts of time to admin a LAMP stack, email server, XMPP server, and whatever else, will eventually be able to run Sandstorm[0] on a home server and be done with it. (I'm working on an appliance distro which will set this up more-or-less automatically.) [0] https://sandstorm.io/ https://sandstorm.io/
- kentonv 12y agoHey, I'd like to hear more about this "appliance distro". E-mail me? (kenton@sandstorm.io)
- freshhawk 12y agoBut the best we can ever do is make it "wrong" with some non-perfect level of enforcement. They will always have the ability to do what they like with the data they have control over.