This is why article 13 in Europe is actually a good idea. All it means is that these companies can be held accountable, and power over copyright is the only place they can start.
@@greenanubis Well, I for one do expect to get respect and basic rights, might not always get it but I expect it. I believe we should try to be better whenever we can. Creators of tech should try to respect people's privacy and rights.
@@mmmk1616 You admitted yourself that your expectations are not aligned with reality. Sometimes yes, but that doesnt make them reliable expectations, thats called hope and faith. Unless by expecting you mean that in proactive way, to "nudge" people in direction of your expectations. Thats fine, but thats not expectations either.
i guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know a tool to log back into an instagram account? I was dumb forgot my password. I would love any help you can offer me
My father and I were talking about his backache after having painted the walls of a room together. He was holding the mobile phone on his hands without giving it too much attention. Few moments later, I turned up the Android TV box and we sit together on the sofa to watch some TV and just relax a bit. The very first thing that immediately popped up as I launched an Android app on the TV was a Google Ad suggestin us a backache medicament. It was not just creepy on its own, but also very rude, because that information about my father's backache was taken completely out of context. This is not only immoral, but also offensive.
There needs to be some organization that simplifies the terms so it's quick to read and understand. Companies won't care unless many of us know what's going on and chooses what to use based on it.
The NSA (and all other major 'security' agencies of the world) are holding a transcript for reference by a new AI bot for cleansing wrong thought (wrong thought now or 3 decades later.)
I can't like this enough... We need more people and organisations like this. P.S. it's the exact same with website cookies. Even after the GDPR in Europe they still just redirect you and throw walls of text at you repeatedly until you get bored and consent or leave the site. This is absurd.
As far as I know... There are two alternatives ... For Google. There is a search engine called DuckDuckGo.(ya that is). This app only does search. Nothing more nothing less. There is an app call Firefox focus. Which is an alternative for Google Crome. You will be amazed to know that Crome is made by team who built firefox . That is what I know. But I do not know the alternative of virtual media app Facebook.
Always keep battery saver on. Apps with microphone access most likely will be stopped from listening. But not sure Google stops itself even in battery saver mode.
Another consideration regarding reading ToS are Arbitration Clauses like what Discord, Malwarebytes and others have done recently which prevent participation in class action lawsuits and forces individual arbitration.
I bought a Motorola smartphone. It wouldn't let me use the camera until I agreed to give up all my privacy. It wanted the names of all my contacts, agree to let Motorola send them mail, access to all my files, etc. Why is this not extortion?
Let's be real here, a company could have a terms of service that says: "We will use your data as we see fit." and people would still click Accept because the value of using the app is greater than any potential for misuse of their data. Personally I think that you should be able to own your data and should be compensated for its use, but let's also understand that it's data and its' mass gathering that enables machine learning and all of the benefits that society now enjoys and if we put too much of a kibosh on its' acquisition we will all be worse off for it.
I whole heartedly agree. Thank you for all the work you and your team does Finn. I tend to read Ts & Cs and Terms of Service, but I know I am in the minority. It is for these reasons that I respect Apple so. They are actively practicing and advocating for our privacy. They are not in the practice of collecting much information on their users, and they definitely do not sell any information.
Excellent talk, excellent work! May I add the thing that is missing from most such considerations - although briefly touched by the speaker: Free speech. A consideration of even greater importance to privacy when it comes to discussions of what needs to change in our digital age.
Govt. should take steps to make the companies to make their terms & conditions simpler, concise & to the point & should take steps to generalise the T&Cs across companies through points & headings.......
I have a user agreement on my computer that states that unsolicited pop up ads are an opt in to anything I may use my computer to do on their site including using unprompted computer language to alter their site's software code. Of course you have to send me an unsolicited pop up in order to give me permission to do that to your website.
I'm pretty surprised why people only mention software companies. Apple/Samsung/Amazon/Google may record your voice using your own smartphone/Siri/Alexa/GoogleHome and you already gave Apple your fingerprint and face
Remember old RU-vid? "Never give out your real name or personal info on the internet." New RU-vid (Google): "Please give us your name, phone number, personal preferences and few intimate details. And oh we will surveillance you a little, thanks."
Unfortunately, people are like:Wth is privacy? Can i eat that? I would rather use those fancy apps than think about it. That's why those ridiculous terms still exist. It's not that people don't realize it.
We need to make companies our selves that make websites and apps that provide readable, understandable and agreeable terms. that provide whats already being provided just without the spyware.
But not only free apps as it seems. The apps where you have to pay to get it also collect your data, so they're not much better. But nothing is free in the internet...
iTunes will scan your hard drive and if they think some of your own music, burned from a tape, cd or even a live recording you legally own does not comply with their copyright rules, they will deny you access to it and you won't be able to play it on your device. Read the TOS. It's way worse than this guy lets on.
You data is collected, sold and put together for companies to better understand how you function and behave. This is used for targeted advertising at the moment but can be used to blackmail you and trick you into decisions and get you into a specific mindset. Imagine google selling me everything they know about you. Suddenly I don't see you as "hdmat101" but with your real name, phone number and location. Then facebook sells me all your photos and your connections as well as what you like and where you checked in. Then instagram sweetens the deal with some more infos.. That information in the wrong hands is bad news. You employer could just decide to fire you because you are trying to start a family (which would involve costs for the employer) because he found you looking at baby sites and shopping for diapers or pregnancy tests. A big problem is that these consents are irrevocable and you might not care much now about it, but in a few years when you do you will not be able to erase it. Just because you delete your account does not mean all your data will be erased too. Its a thin line. There can be good things done with this information like predicting health problems and financial help but it could be used as well for bad things like blackmail extortion and separation.
@@mbglobetrotter Not to mention companies using your images and videos in advertising (like he stated). I for one would be heartbroken if some of my pictures that I took before the dawn of the internet, but are now in the cloud because of social media, will be used for some conglomerate's financial gain. I wish I had known that... 😭
Could you please put links to the speakers public speaking websites or RU-vid channels etc, if they have any, in the blurb to help people find more talks by them? - I found a public awareness twitter by him under ‘Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad’, you can browse without signing up thankfully. For anyone else who is interested. - Great talk!! Thank you. :) I think something that was and wasn’t touched on was that sometimes you actually /need/ to use things. Word for example is used for everything, google docs is becoming more popular and you may be given a google email account because of it. Plus programs you need for school, University, work. I got given the ‘never use your real name online’ speech and then Facebook came out and everyone was pretty much encouraged to get it for ways to contact you about high school reunions if nothing else. All that never use your real name? Yeah that went out the window. Now more online stuff is asking for your real name and you can’t log in without it. Even if you get a user name or it’s just for a newsletter subscription. Not to mention online shopping, all the ‘never give out personal details’ recommendations really take a hike when you are giving away your phone number and address to online shops. Which yes it’s necessary if you want to shop online, particually if what you want isn’t available offline, but at the same time well when you protect your personal address from people online, even online friends you have known for years, only to realise you have been unthinkingly giving it out to online shops all the time simply because they are shops well things are put a bit more into perspective. Basically despite being told never to give away personal details people are unthinkingly going it constantly simply because that is the way the internet works and there is talk of it becoming illegal to not use your real name online to sign up to things, or you have to use it, now rather then using the ‘safety’ of a username. (Illegal in some areas, programs, or in the future or already I don’t know) the point is you are told never, ever, ever to give away personal details but.... increasingly the internet is collecting data as well as being more up front about it collecting your real name, phone number, email address etc and people think nothing of it. Then of course there is also the little (big) data that tells people everything else about us.
I'm still pleased with my decision to evacuate Facebook. I stopped using Facebook about seven years ago. Facebook used my predictable unavailability to access a connected device and its no notice of changes policy to wall me away from my own photographic creations and prevent me from gaining a view for my personal enjoyment. It was also failing to post my content in a timely fashion and I strongly suspect was also the avenue by which hackers planted a destructive virus on my PC. I liken my experience to a truck full of mail colliding with a prison bus and every imaginable thing going wrong except any prisoners getting injured.
Smart, I wish I had of done that. my friend opened my account, bad, I had no computer or mobile phone internet connection. Not good to to do this to family or friends that are not good with the internet, dangerous. Need to delete, we all need to delete, one by one, collectively.
You have over 2000 photos on Facebook ? Some were quite personal ? And you thought that uploading quite personal information is a good thing to do ? :-)
