Steve Wozniak shuts down his Facebook account in protest (2018)
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>“As they say, with Facebook, you are the product.”
Whenever people become products or property of another party it's a pretty good sign something has gone very wrong.
Perhaps its time we had a Personal Data Emancipation Proclimation and positively asserted the intellectual property rights of one's own personal information over those who seek to own it through coercion and deception.
The technically literate like Woz and many on HN are among the greatest critics of these human data traffickers, while the technically illiterate masses continue to "voluntarily" give up their data; reminiscent of how upon learning to read, Frederick Douglass finally understood the reality of his bondage while noting that his fellow slaves were contented in being illiterate and ignorant.
Of course no stuff is really free, so they have to get money some other way... but maybe they should be more open about it, maybe offer an "enhanced privacy mode" for like $10/month? You're still free to use any other social network though, including the ability to self-host a blog and email if you wish.
> Still, he didn’t delete his Facebook account — just deactivated it — for fear that someone else would snatch up the screen name “stevewoz.”
=Timelines -- A social network that allows you to own your data.
=Share beautiful moments of your life with friends, family or the world.
=Easily customize who sees which post.
=Maintain ownership of your data at all times. Timelines stores your data in a specific folder on your Google Drive which is sandboxed from all your other data on Google drive.
=You'll need a Google account to use Timelines!
What do you guys think?
Your data is pretty much all over the internet anyway. On HN news servers, your mail servers, etc etc. So, how do you decide who to trust and who not to?
How do you propose that we store the data in this case? I can only think of storing it on some server in an encrypted form. Your thoughts?
To answer your question: Right now, the storage is provided by them. So, I don't need to worry about paying for a user's storage. It is on google. And as stated above, data can always be encrypted before storing.