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by kaxline 8y ago
Understood. Any alternative ideas?
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by kaxline 8y ago
Yes, I've been thinking about this. I still think the focus should be on individual ownership, because then that individual could opt-in to a bundled data purchase. Their cut would be small, but maybe it's automated so you get a l
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by kaxline 8y ago
You bring up some good points and I don't have an answer for how data ownership would affect every industry or product category. On the $10/month figure, I would point out that this is likely per data silo. So Facebook's data
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by kaxline 8y ago
I sort of agree with this. I'm cynical that the genie can be put back in the bottle. I also think for a certain crowd whose support you'll need for any changes along these lines, the term "freedom of speech" has become p
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by kaxline 8y ago
The burden is something I worry about myself, but I imagine smart people could solve this or automate it. Perhaps I have a profile of any types of requests that I automatically approve, so I only get notifications on the outliers. Also, I t
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by kaxline 8y ago
Good points, thanks for reading even though you disagree. In my mind data ownership makes the arguments against those questions stronger. They can't track your location because you didn't give them permission. Right now we have th
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by kaxline 8y ago
I agree with you in principle, but then we're giving up the redundancy and safety offered by multiple data centers. The cost also comes down at cloud scale so that you're only paying a few dollars a month instead of large up front
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by kaxline 8y ago
There are types of situations where I think it gets really blurry and complicated, but I think we need to start with things that we intuitively feel like we own, like DNA, or the 3D map of our face. Then as we move out into grayer territory
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by kaxline 8y ago
Yes, it's imperfect for sure, but I'm trying to get people who don't think about these things to understand how the thefts is analogous to physical items we value. Data has its own unique properties so any physical metaphor o
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Privacy Is Just the First Step, the Goal Is Data Ownership(thetoolsweneed.com)
398 points by kaxline 8y ago|151 comments
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by kaxline 8y ago
There were a lot of questions about VPNs in response to this post, so I addressed them here: https://thetoolsweneed.com/one-sorta-simple-way-to-vastly-im...
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One Sorta Simple Step to Vastly Increase Your Privacy Online: VPN(thetoolsweneed.com)
2 points by kaxline 8y ago|0 comments
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by kaxline 8y ago
Great points, thanks for posting. I'll try to incorporate this nuance in future posts.
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by kaxline 8y ago
I'm thinking more of media sites that rely on ad dollars to pay the bills. Unless they have a direct subscription option or other way to pay for the service, you're eating into their bottom line. The real world analog would be new
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by kaxline 8y ago
Mobile isn't so bad! No complaints so far after about a month.
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by kaxline 8y ago
Yeah, I wrestled with including this step, but I wanted to keep it mostly straightforward for relatively non-technical users. I have a different network level ad blocker and love it.
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by kaxline 8y ago
I recommended Firefox mostly because it's been around longer and people have probably heard of it. For your average person, the steps in this article are already asking a lot so I wanted to keep things as familiar as possible. Even if
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A few simple steps to vastly increase your privacy online(thetoolsweneed.com)
290 points by kaxline 8y ago|206 comments
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Laws That Get You Paid for Your Data Are Cool, but They Won't Work(thetoolsweneed.com)
3 points by kaxline 8y ago|0 comments
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by kaxline 15y ago
while i don't disagree with holman's statements, i do think he misses the point. for me, trunk's article was about how the statement 'women should work at startups' is patronizing because it implies that they are less capable of making that