Privacy Reboot

There are levels of appetite for risk when it comes to entrusting people or companies with your data and everyone has a different appetite for it. I could never imagine voluntarily giving over my DNA to those ancestry type companies that trace your lineage and hoping they look after the info and never get breached. That's a no from me. #Privacy #PrivacyMatters #PricacyReboot

Privacy and social media really aren't compatible in my humble opinion. There can be no reasonable expectations of privacy when online in any form.

Well the social media ban is imminent for under 16s in Australia. I'm all for moderation of kids using social media. Not so much for the facial recognition and biometrics database being managed and held by private companies that have regularly shown to be pretty poor at handling your privacy. I don't have the answers but I can see it going wrong on a couple of fronts.

There's a real discomfort that I feel when I think of how we are being comoditized by companies that on the face of it aren't in the data game. For example you buy a car and your car logs and tracks your driving metrics not because they are good safety conscious corporations but so they can look at your data and see where you have been geographically. They sell your data and deal with it in opaque ways. It may be harmless and it may be benign but most of us will never know. To me it's bullshit of the highest order that you have to get an app (and in some cases pay for it) to drive your car with a subscription for an app so you can set and forget. It'd be somewhat tolerable if you knew the company wasn't on selling your data it but there's no guarantees. Privacy Matters