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If a total stranger walked up to you and asked "Where are going?" You might reply with "It's none of your business." Today, your privacy is literally someone's business. You willfully give strangers all your information and they sell it to everyone who wants it!
You are correct, but in order for your example to be precise, the "stranger" in your example is not just a stranger. It's a celebrity. Google, Facebook and others are well known. In your example "stranger" should be Lady Gaga or Leonardo di Caprio.
It's been said many times: Sacrificing privacy because you have nothing to hide is the same as sacrificing freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
If you believe you have nothing to hide, they'll just make something up. Like in Australia, the police there now have the right to delete, alter and add to(plant) electronic information of Australians. Meaning they're allowed to plant incriminating evidence(like CP)and then arrested you for it. No I'm not Joking.
@@ysomadbeats If everyone's social media was public (accessible, as in text messages and whatnot), there would be a LOT less trust in people with power and your friends. What you do in private is NOT what you want others to know about you. The government likes accessing our data, yet they won't let us access theirs (the ones that should be public anyway, obviously some things need to be kept private). The first step is transparency. No one likes legal jargon. No one likes "secretly implying another thing." For instance, a company may say, "This data won't be tied to you once you delete it," but what does that even mean? For all we know, the public will just see "deleted," instead of the username, but the company can still hold backups or your IP. The second step is to make sure that those words stay true. If it is broken, no more slap on the wrist. People (corporations) can get away with breaking the law like it's nothing, yet people (humans) can get their literal lives ruined.
I agree with everything you said. I am an idiot though, and have a bunch of questions on how this app solves the problem that many of the devices themselves we are using are constantly spying on us, and that most people still use platforms that collect their data. I think this would make for a fun discussion.
This seems so fundamental that I would never even imagine that it needs to be said. Then again, I don't know that the average person thinks "cloud" means
You still have to take a huge leap of faith in trusting that the "encryption" methods, who were made by super geeks and engineers, really found a way on the OSI model to really keep and end to end connection private on a platform made by the same people you are trying to keep your info private from. So how can you understand this process better ? Go read a bunch of certification books made by people who understand only how to use the backbone that was already provided for them. They are already 10 steps ahead of any game being played over a TCP/IP connection
Really? Don't forget to mention to your student that anyone who takes a common knowledge, exagerate it's to fit the narrative to sell a (future) product, has shady motives at best.
The Human Right to Privacy shouldn’t even be a Matter of Debate especially in a place that call itself the “Land of the Free” I really appreciate the effort you’re putting in to keep our Data and Privacy Safe!!
Indeed you are the product! Some of his payment is enjoyment from knowing people enjoy it, possibly some from advertising (to you) and some from sponsors who pay because you see him mention their products.
Even if you pay for something like RU-vid Premium it isn't a privacy subscription, its a ad revenue replacement subscription. Google still hoovers up the data of RU-vid Premium subscribers in order to add to their digital advertising portfolio and sell them ads on other platforms. So you can pay and still be the product.
This is such a relevant and powerful topic. So glad to see you tackling the subject of digital privacy. "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” Same goes for big tech companies. Count me in on the Kickstarter!
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 VPN's are not that private. You are sharing your data with a private company rather than an ISP or big tech. Who knows who are behind those private companies. Might as well be decoys set up by big tech or the big brother. Either way....
I would love to see a continuation of this series. I think the expectation of privacy has actually gotten worse over the last year, at least for the average user that isn't actively fighting for their privacy.
This video is less about convincing people to respect their privacy than it is about informing people of the extent to which their privacy is compromised.
Let's not forget the fact that privacy isn't seen as a given or as a basic right or expectation, it's seen as something trendy and marketable. Remember the Freedom Phone?
Who can you trust when they all lie? My bank claims to keep all my info private and I even directed them to do so with a terms of privacy agreement limiting what they can share to conduct business. But I recently opened an account where the teller misspelled my name on the account. I noticed it later and had it corrected. Then something interesting happened as I started getting letters in the mail and emails to the misspelled name from all sorts of businesses and advertisers. I knew where the leak was, my local bank. When I went to the bank to complain, they swore up and down that it didn't come from them. About the same time I also learned that the Drivers License facilities in my State where selling personal and identifiable information to insurance companies and whoever would pay for it. I also realized that the government was giving free cell phones to the poor was not a charitable gesture but one that could allow a total breach of privacy. The government tracking down people for the mostly peaceful protest in Washington DC on Jan.6 by their cell phone records shows how vulnerable the public is.
Isn’t part of the problem that the internet “engine” ran on user data because selling the data to advertisers is what funds a lot of major websites? The technology solution of end to end encryption fixes the part of ownership, but without a change in service funding how can this become widely adopted. Definitely interested to see more videos in this series.
Perfect Forward Secrecy, end-to-end encryption, ECDHE is an important notion, but I'd point out that most fraud occurs within the armored pipes. It is part of the problem. The other is to disrupt how money is made through far too specific advertising.
you should read Jaron Lanier's book "who owns the future?" which amongst other things provides fascinating illustrations of the early architecture of the computing upon which the internet is based, (from one of its architects and all round interesting person)
Yes, this. How will they be funded if you remove how they make money? We get privacy, but we lose the services and considering we choose to give up privacy for the services now, why would that change to become widely adopted? I thought he was going to explain a new way for Internet businesses to run.
Basically yes that's the fundamental issue with the internet. If you make a web site, it costs you money to operate while anyone can visit it for free. They won't pay without a strong incentive, because they can go literally anywhere else on the entire internet instantly. So how do you make money? For most sites that aren't able to function as paid services or aren't part of a separate business, advertising is the only option. And because of the way the internet works, advertisers would actually have to go out of their way *not* to collect too much data. (As soon as request hits their servers, they know a lot about you without even trying.) Furthermore, many internet services - even paid ones - can only work by storing lots of data. They are fundamentally data storage services, and subject to all the issues mentioned in this video. Building in "zero-knowledge" requires extra effort and must be done from the beginning, and is still trivial to compromise for almost any staff at an ordinary tech company. Bottom line is, just gotta keep fighting the good fight and building awareness. People are beginning to be willing to pay for privacy-first services. Just move the needle in a small way, and write to your lawmakers as often as possible (and don't be cynical - it can have an effect, and is worth doing).
this is one of the reasons i dont oppose data selling, its what provides this amazing resource to as many people as it does and fuels the engine of the internet
Glad to see a relatively big youtuber getting into the personal privacy realm. Hopefully 4Privacy doesn't see too many compromises on its core mission as time wears on
I agree with you but it's a terrible analogy. It's more like if a total stranger, with a police background check, came up to you and offered $1000 but with a very good, very reasonable explanation. Most people would take the money, gladly, not stopping to think about the small print. The services that companies like Google/Android and Apple offer used to be worth thousands and thousands of dollars, prior to the software revolution they ushered in. Unfortunately, there's a good reason why most people ignore the privacy issue, even though they should not.
@@cbxk1xg end to end encryption and open source technology in the name of secure privacy as a scam? By a well known, respected and connected RU-vidr who is very transparent about what he does? What issue do you see here?
You hit the nail RIGHT ON THE HEAD! "Power corrupts people." That's why I don't trust career politicians because they're not looking out for their constituents. They're just looking to line their pockets.
“Dad, would the government ever implement a program to constantly monitor people in the homes?” “Now Son, where would they get the resources to do that?” My son laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed.
I was like this. I thought, the alexa is only listening for key words, it would take too much bandwidth to send everything we are saying in the house. Then Amazon employees stated that they can listen to everything being said inside the house.
Glad I subscribed to this channel a long time ago, you are definitely on the right path here and got my support. It’s an ENORMOUS and POWERFUL institution you’re facing up against, all the more reason for me to be inspired. Look forward to seeing more videos in this series!
Yes, that's true. However, citizens must realize how this government is suppose to work and the we can have laws enacted to fix our privacy problems. The skepticism that people have of the government comes from the fact that citizens have forgotten that they can hold the government accountable, but only if they have the will and put forth the effort to do so. This to say that dealing with the government can be discouraging, but we CAN and MUST do our diligence to make sure the government is a tool for the people and NOT against the people. Yes, we're losing our privacy, but we can work to regain it.
so you know what angers me? the: "but i have nothing to hide so why does it matter" argument. Repeatedly thorough out history changes in power / government have resulted in people who "had nothing to hide" suffering due to differences of opinion. there is no reason to allow privacy to be eroded away under any of the false pretense's they give.
Next time someone tells you that ask them if they'll give you their phone so you can go through all their emails, messages, and photos. I bet they won't.
Absolutely! The argument "I don't need privacy because i've got nothing to hide" is just as ridiculous as "I don't need freedom of speech because i've got nothing to say"
@@adam8628 gov doesn't have the right, nor will they sell your data if they do get hold of it. We know, from the Edward Snowden case, that agencies like, NSA, FBI, don't need to go to court to get permission to spy on you, that is how they ended up spying 2/3 of the US, anyone even remotely linked to anything would be put on the watchlist. I'm sure, it's 3/3 now since it's become much easier to passively spy on people.
I'm 1/2 way through watching your video and I am really really happy and appreciative that someone is taking a stand here. Especially someone with a large platform. I stand beside you 100%
The fact that you sensed it was a good idea to make this video shows that people are finally catching on. It boggles the mind how people have been so blind to this for 20+ years. It’s not like we haven’t had people screaming about this issue the whole time.
I think difference is Destin isn't screaming. Metaphorically of course. People will complain about privacy all day without real explanations or understandings of what's going on. Destin explained and presented sources for how this stuff is used to negatively affect people.
@@randallstokes3684 his explanation is excellent but it barely scratched the surface. Endless technical details of how this has been working are plentiful online.
@@randomblock1_ isn’t is more than a password manager? The way I understood it was that we would encrypt the data we store on the cloud. This would obviously mean you would have to figure out how to handle the public data which simplest would be unencrypted
By saying "I dont care I dont have nothing to hide" and by clicking "I agree" non stop for last 15 years, we gave them the tools. Politics is supposed to stop that but in its actual form (and have been for a long while), political systems became so corrupt that the swiss cheese is now more holes than cheese. I'm an actual frog (french canadian lol) and I'm boiling. I have chronic long covid right now and was looking for some content that really interests me and stumbled on your channel. Your work really does me wonders as with long covid, the mental state is as important if not more than the physical side. You are making a big positive impact on my life right now and I'm thankful for it. Lots of love to you my friend.
Thank you Destin. I'm relatively tech-aware, but I have to say privacy has been SO confusing to figure out. I am really grateful for this because I trust you and can trust your advice! I love that you've framed this as an industry-wide paradigm shift too! Count me in.
1:40 it’s called the “shifting baseline phenomena” and it’s one of the reasons people so easily “get stuck” where they don’t want to be … because so many around them didn’t see the baseline shift … - I’ve been frustrated about this in regards to: A) pollution B) privacy (online and offline CCTV and facial recognition) C) media censorship D) loss of basic understanding of what Liberty was
100% agree with you. This could also easily be extended to work rights and control over the economy (but the subject could get politically polluted by introducing these two other aspects).
I thought we were told that these are private companies and they can do whatever they want? They should be held to the same constitutional standards especially if they’re leasing land from the government and work hand in hand with the government
@@TKUA11 Who says they can do whatever they want? Oh...you're doing that thing where you misunderstand the law and make huge generalizations in order to make a political point.
@@ReturnOfHeresy I think what we need to be more concerned with is corporations themselves becoming government... In many cases, these billionaire corporations have more influence. Think about it, freedom of speech isn't allowed on Facebook. If you say something they don't like, the Constitution doesn't apply, yet the result is the same. We are living under new forms of government.
As a Communications Specialist with 25 + years of expierence I seen this coming many many years ago & have spoken about it often. Your explanation nailed it in simple terms for the many, thank you Destin.
Destin did a great job of explaining how. And I do trust him, but I wasn't sold in the explanation of why? Please speak more regarding the stance "I have nothing to hide"
@@sambobman1 "I have nothing to hide" goes out the window when the possibility of literally anyone being able to have access to your PHI or other personal data via data leaks.... obviously we need ways to track and find criminals and other wrongdoers, but the answer isn't to just let every bit of your life accessible to nearly everyone, because it comes with many problems. Identity theft is another big threat that has increased heavily due to the sheer amount of private information that is available to many now.
One thing that is being missed here... the only reason these services are free and as available / advanced as they are is because they are making money off the data. If the data stops being provided, there is no reason to provide these services for free, and they go back to charging for everything or removing functionality. Also, while I'm not a big fan of how most big data is used, there is a LOT of massively beneficial items gained from sharing this data anonymously and for free. Things like traffic reporting, GPS, targeted advertising to provide revenue to content creators, smart home technology... all this is only possible due to this data sharing and monetization that is occurring now.
It’s great to see that people have noticed and I are working on this problem! I don’t know how I can help other than fun in this kick starter but I’m in! Thank you for sharing Dustin and making this more accessible to every day people they may not think so much about the benefit and potential solution to privacy!
@David Vienna , it's not hard at all for someone to listen in on you through your phone. If the FBI wanted to, they can even turn on your phone even when it is turned off. As long as there is a working battery, they can turn on your phone and listen to everything and even turn on your camera if they wanted. This has been known for a very long time now.
This whole video I was waiting for the "This video is sponsored by Express/NordVPN" and the longer I watched, the deeper Destin explained, the more I realized he actually cares, and is trying to MAKE a solution. Wonderful video.
You just give away all or some of your privacy not only to endpoints but also to MITM, your vpn provider. Instead of setting up your very own vpn. That doesnt solve anything anyway.
Thank you for discussing this and showing actual solutions, and not shilling for some VPN pretending like that solves this problem (it doesn't, it just slightly changes who you're trusting with your personal data with). True end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture and open-source software is exactly what we need to make a tool that is impossible to corrupt and steal data from. Privacy and security ate two of many reasons why I use open-source software and Linux wherever possible.
Thank you for doing this!!! We need more people with a voice to speak out about this. Please keep this going!!! BTW, I also keep every thing possible turned off including diagnostic data. I know they they probably still take my information even though I opt out of it all. Location, app to app data. Diagnostic data. No cloud storage nothing.
I love how you’re able to tackle huge and at times divisive issues while somehow always managing to keep it apolitical. This channel is such a breathe of fresh air. Definitely a worthy cause bravo Destin! 👍😁
@@JerR22 I disagree. He only explained its purpose, background and also the potential problems of it and how it could be improved were it to remain a law. I didn't hear anything sounding definitely for or against it.
@@BeeSharp47 If apolitical means that you don't stray far from the status quo, then the frog in boiling water is apolitical. Things can slowly get worse and what's "apolitical" will just move with it. Also walking the dog is apolitical, you can't make an apolitical video about the Patriot act and privacy.
Even if you truly "have nothing to hide" you dont break a single law ever at any time (which is impossible). what happens when that thing you weren't hiding suddenly becomes illegal. It has happened countless times through history and will surely happen again and because you said you had nothing to hide, You let the government create this huge mass surveillance apparatus that will ultimately be your demise.
The laws ought to be written to fit to what people do, not the other way around. If everybody is doing something illegal, then the solution is not to have privacy be our defense against the government, but to change the laws to fit society. You either have nothing to hide, are doing something that ought not be hidden, or are actually commiting a crime. Privacy is not needed. People really do either have nothing to hide, or do.
Destin, You are doing a service for all of us. Thank you, Thank You, Thank You. Will be contributing to the kickstarter in the near future. Building my coaching practice and releasing my first book so should have more income the beginning of 2022. Looking forward to hearing more.
Awesome!!! You actually started to talk about the elephant in the room. You will be on a Google black list in no time, but keep on going. We need influential people like you to keep bringing this problem to light. That's brings the somewhat old question back: Snowden; hero or tractor?
Finally someone's talking about it! People have been called paranoid when they bring up how we as a society have happily invited surveillance into our homes over the years of technology improvement with the birth of social media and the catalyst of 9/11. Thanks for starting this series!
"We think there needs to be not only regulation, but technology solution" What I've noticed is that there's plenty of privacy tech out there, the issue is that privacy also requires people around you using it. The default right now is not private tech and so either regulation or mindset change is the bottleneck.
Too true. You may not have a facebook account, but if your entire family uses it, facebook definitely knows about YOU. You might not send your DNA to be recorded, but if a few people loosely related to you do so, you can be identified by DNA. You might have a secure email server, but if the people you email don't... what have you accomplished?
@@Falcrist I don't think it's necessarily no accomplishment. E.g. using a private email makes sure all your emails at least aren't centralized with one provider that can access them. But the current mindset does limit the extent of privacy.
no no we need it implemented by default like deep within the network stack on your phone....and every app has to comply. would take out facebook if we are lucky
A phrase that always comes back to me when people complain about the government holding your personal data, "Why should you be worried, if you have nothing to hide", In all honest sense, if your a law abiding citizen then why are you worrying about it, its only the people who have done something who are paranoid about their secrets coming to light. The Government literally has your name, blood type, doctor, residence and nationality by the time you are born, they have all the data on you, and companies that sell your data so that you get offers based on your recommendations is a good thing for me, as it saves me the effort of looking through such matters.
One thing I would like to see Destins take on, is how the data is then turned against you to mainpulate you in ways and levels that has never been seen before.
I think this is one of my struggle points with all of this. For regular, daily communications, actions, locations, etc why do I care that they have this data? What are they currently doing with it that I should have a problem with, and what are the practical near-term future things they *could* do with it?
They can model your brain like we can model the weather. They predict your thoughts because they have so much data on what goes into your brain. But they also control many of those flows of information, so they also predict how your thoughts will change if they reduce, amplify, delay, or hasten certain flows of information. Recently with the rona, it has become much more accurate, but people getting angrier has reduced the confidence of the predictions. We've all become somewhat loose cannons. Also, China has wised up and closed a lot of info leaks. We can no longer predict China.
@@Rydralain As a programmer myself all that data would allow you to completely manipulate a person and everything they see on the internet. It's the most perfect version of brain washing and the user would be "happy" and not suspect a thing. Minority report is already starting to come true.
Destin, your ability to not only convey serious information in a factual, hopeful way, yet also propose and design a realistic solution deeply admirable. Kudos, legend!
Thank you for curating this video as well dedicating a series to it and even working on a solution by creating an app that puts the encryption keys in the users hands. Would love to see more on this series as well as advancements in the app and other ways to protect end user data. Kudos!
I'm currently doing cyber security in college just now and we covered this recently. Its genuinely scary what these companies have on us. Brilliant video to bring awareness to this subject.
Thank you for making this critical information public. Many people called me paranoid when I try to explain how this works. You explained it very well.
As soon as I released where you was going with this I went straight to your subscriber counter and seen 10 M ..... I'm so pleased to see someone using their platform for something so meaningful and important to so many people. Thank you, from the center of my soul, thank you for speaking out about this.
@@monsterwithoutname9689 imagine shilling for the big tech... I don't understand where this allegiance to the big tech is coming from. unless you're on their payroll...
Destin - pure brilliance that you chose this topic. Privacy is of big concern right now - it's no surprise that Facebook is changing its name. I'll be joining that kickstarter immediately.
It’s not actually changing it’s name. Just the name of the holder of all the companies. So instead of Facebook owning Instagram it’ll be “insert name here”
I said it back in 2001 when they stopped allowing non ticket holders of airline flights to go into the terminals and started doing TSA scans that this is the start of us slowly loosing our rights.
ohhh nooo Destin, you're going to lose quite a few social credit points for making such content :D J/k this is great, its amazing how many people I know who tow the "if you have nothing to hide" argument.
End to end encryption is great at preventing man-in-the-middle attacks, but it doesn't prevent a (for example) CPU manufacturer from implementing literal wire tapping at the silicon level and gathering information. Line snooping is already common place for things like caches, and considering the level of complexity of modern processors, crazier things have been done. Apple has their own ARM core now, if they really wanted to they could implement something like this to get around software encryption. After all, software encryption only works with software. If the hardware you're running it on is compromised you're SOL. We should also not forget hardware vulnerabilities like specter and meltdown which were hardware bugs that could be exploited by malware to obtain sensitive information.
Well Ios15 was already controversial because it was going to scan everyones photos which they said "it was to catch pedophiles" but with no oversight process then you have no idea how its being used. We need strict auditing bodies to provide oversight to the tech companies and to the government.
Indeed. EEE only stops casual eavesdropping. It doesn't do anything to stop the apps at the ends from doing stupid things. (See Also: Apple's iOS 15 attempted client side scanning ... "for da chil'ren") Or of course, for people to _claim_ end-to-end encryption but then not actually doing it. (sadly... far more common.)
AMEN!! As a Network Technician, I'm consistently telling people that the real privacy issue is the manufacturers of the technology and the government that regulates those manufacturers, that's the REAL privacy concern. Most software encryption is a moot point at the end of the day, it's all just Advertising nonsense.
I was an account executive at an advertising company years ago (Like, 20 years ago). The amount of information that we had on the population was mind blowing! It was all because people voluntarily submitted information in their daily lives. And that was well before the days of Facebook, My Space etc.
I too thought the Patriot Act was good when it passed (I was inly 17 at the time) but it has become clear that it was one of the bigger mistakes our country has made in losing our freedoms, particularly out privacy. Thank you for being willing to admit your mistakes. Hopefully enough people can admit this that we can reign this things back in, but freedom once given is difficult to get back again.
Another way of looking at it is the authoritarian or totalitarian tip toe. You don’t have to believe that we’re slowly losing our freedom and privacy because there’s a bigger conspiracy. You only need to realize that we’re heading there today. If that totalitarian switch ever gets flipped well then I struggle to find a solution of how to unplug that light. It’s no lie that there is a bias in media. It’s not hard to see who benefits from it. Destin isn’t directly saying it because he doesn’t want to be cancelled but what he’s saying is we’re all now living in the crazy world those conspiracy theorists were acting all crazy about 20 years ago. Hate to break it to all of you but it’s way too late.
@@MrSladej Late is an understatement. We walk around with devices that ping our gps location, showing not just where you are but who you're around. They can access phone and text conversations, emails, anything on social media, etc. Most people think "I'm too normal they don't care about me", that's not the point, with thousands of 'normal' people's data they can make predictions. For example, suspiciously accurate advertising to the point that they can know things like when a woman is pregnant before she's told anyone, based on changes in purchase history compared to a multitude of other women who established and verified that data trend for them. Oh and if you wear an apple watch or some variation of it, you're really upping the amount of data they have for you thanks to the biometrics. Etc. We've been on this path for a while.
You can't run. Wherever you're running to, regardless of how fast, stealthily, and distant... you're just running to another location from which they will collect and monitor more of you and your data.
@@largelarry2126 If a picture of them has ever been uploaded all the files are there for that person. FB started facial recognition years ago. Big brother has it amped up on a even higher level and faster format. Nobody is safe above, in or below the radar.
@@largelarry2126 facial recognition is real and it's primitive compared to what the three-letter agencies are using. There's a camera everywhere nowadays.
I've been an advocate for digital privacy measures since I learn about Cambridge Analitica, the patriot act, and FB lawsuits with people trying to retrieve their data that went nowhere. Looking ahead just 10-20yrs from now we could have serious issues when start including AI and Neuralink into the mix.
@@steinarey I think the key part is that they're 3rd party. If it was benign data like session state or preferences they wouldn't be on another domain.
Privacy is important, but I have some concerns about the app: 1. This app looks to provide secure messaging, password manager, and secure data store (files, documents, etc). That is a lot of major functionality for a single service to provide. 2. The doesn't actually replace other major data leaks (email, social media, search). This is where I seriously question the vision of having 1 app to do everything. It feels both too big and too small at the same time. Even today, we don't have 1 company that does it all. Therefore, it makes sense to support independent projects that can each do their own thing really well. Perhaps if this app was able to integrate with existing services by "holding their encryption keys", then this would make sense, but looking at the Kickstarter, I don't actually see any evidence of that.
@@TheSlowGrowth Of course you would have to pay. That’s how it was until data using was common for businesses. You paid for AOL, your email service, your virus app, etc. When it’s free, YOU/YOUR DATA is the product. Things cost money: servers, electricity, rent, computers, different software to run it all, employees, how does one pay for all that? By charging customers. If you pay for it, you are the customer. If it is free, you are the product and anyone willing to pay for your data are the customers.
Yea I love Destin and what he does, but hes not gonna be the one to solve this. It requires buy in from the big tech companies to achieve what hes trying to do here.
@@TheSlowGrowth I'm not sure what monetization model fits best here. Subscription vs non-targeted ads vs donation vs freemium all have different pros/cons. I'm not sure which one is best here, and I don't think *anybody* knows for sure which one would be the best long term.
Brother, Thanks for ringing the security alarm. I appreciate your concern and I'm making some changes myself. Say, have you checked out Rob Braxman's work on this subject! Cheers, Eric
"I'm going to try to make a compelling enough case to convince you that privacy is worth fighting for." Well... I'm sold! (Seriously though, thanks for taking on this issue. Experience tells me a lot of people aren't particularly informed when it comes to this topic.)
Yes it is a non-partisan issue when you look at the big picture. The problem is the right now its working in favor of a specific party in power, which will make it a difficult problem to deal with. Sort of like the censorship of free speech thing. Its a threat to us all, but if its in your favor in the moment, you may not see it as a problem until its too late.
@Vincent Sumner Although I'm sure I know what OP is bias is now, but it does not take away from this truth. erosion of free speech, privacy, security (both digital and physical), and the rise in censorship, are all bipartisan problems that effect and hurt all of us. These past 5-6 years, it has been blatantly obvious who is benefiting from these issues, if it was not already obvious after the complete 180 the left wing has gone through suspiciously since Occupy Wallstreet. For real tho, the left wing prior to Occupy Wall street where free speech, privacy and digital security orientated (a lot where already anti-gun so that's a big F for physical security), anti censorship purest. Some how big tech, brands, banks, the wealthy elite in general, have bamboozled the left wing into fighting for censorship because it protects their feelings without thinking that it can and will be used against them once the precedent is set, especially if its set in law. The anti-free speech aspect to the left I find particularly bizarre considering that free speech was one of the most crucial corner stones of so many civil rights wins. But they are willing to give that up in order to have big daddy tech protect their feelings. In return for safe feelings, they pay them with their information at the cost of their privacy. Additionally, even more of a concern, this recent Facebook "Whistle blower" has been discovered to be anti encryption thanks to her social media accounts being dug up. It's a very smooth brained take for someone in the tech industry to make, but makes perfect sense for someone in bed with the government, as governments tend to want the keys to everything, making huge privacy violating secret programs like the kind that Edward Snowden exposed. If the government can get your data, so can a hacker, so can big tech. And to know who these sorts of policies are made to benefit, just follow the money. Who donates, funds, and invests in politicians who are pushing these policies. I think you will find the richest and the wealthiest most elite people tend to support democrats and in general left wing politicians across the world. The big corporations often push this new left wing ideology on their employees and big tech in particular enforces this ideology online. And they also virtue signal so hard that it is extremely cringe and annoying, but it shows exactly which ideology they are aligned with, or at least using to push their goals (too make money). where right wing politicians (specifically the new populist types) are mostly funded by individuals and the tend to be more like traditional left wing liberals more then ever right now, but are often targeted by big tech censorship, and big tech propping up the mainstream media that is bias against them. They have done all of this to pit the left and right against each other so we are fighting our selves. It is just divide and conquer 101. We greatly out number and out gun them so if we are fighting our selves, we are not paying any attention to the blatant power grabs they are doing right now. And with that power they will influence laws and the economy to pad their pocket books, as the rich wealthy elite have always done. How they some how got the left wing to lick both cooperate and government boot, while eroding everyone's speech, security, and privacy absolutely boggles my mind. Never growing up would I imagine I would have to vote right wing, but some how the parties have switched on the issues that matter most to all of us even if the left wing can't see it.
Actually this has its cons too. It will be terrorists paradise. I am from India and terrorists mainly use Telegram and WhatsApp to communicate. So if this system is implemented, then it'll cause huge trouble to countries with terror threats. Ah, this will never be implemented. Mark my words.
@@kunjupulla aaa the “terrorist argument” lret the gouvernments protect us….. man….didn’t we learn anything from history?!?? to much power corrupts anyone.. if you hear in the media that someone is a terrorist that’s not necessarily true my friend. who armed these guys in the first place? how did they get to where they are? what drives them? do some digging my friend. the answers are closer than you think. freedom means freedom, it’s a state of mind, a tool if you’d like .if some people decide to do bad things under the freedom umbrella that’s not the fact that freedom is a bad thing.
I did my senior CS ethics essay on Key Escrow: essentially the government’s attempt to make the very thing your are trying to do illegal. That should say a lot about the trustworthiness of the government and the efficacy of what you are attempting.
The government is constantly trying to pass proposals which would make it illegal for us to encrypt anything at all, lol. They keep trying to make it illegal to create (good, functional) encryption software by claiming you're exporting military intelligence, and they keep trying to make it only legal to encrypt anything if the government has a backdoor into your encryption - which not only defeats the point in theory, but defeats it even harder in practise, because there is no way to implement that without also leaving the back door open for every other nation state and hacking group out there as well. We'll definitely need to keep checking the government. Especially if 4Privacy makes it big at all.
Well it's too late for privacy to be a matter. US is run by capitalist corporations who can and will demand the government to outright ban or change laws. See right to repair as an example. It's a noble act that will enforce your ownership on items you should own & the right to enable non-company repairman to easily find spare (OEM) & repair your items. But multiple companies tries to lobby against it so independent repair or techy people can't even repair it without repercussions. Apple disables touch id or boot loops phones on independent repaired devices while John Deere locks repair on software unless it's their own technician. Don't even start with serialization where unless serial # on parts match the original it will not be acknowledged, hence repaired screens don't even works.
@@kurtjustiniani1354 You're right, unfortunately, but let's hope that Destin's video series brings all of this to the forefront of people's minds, and that that adjust the political calculus in some ways (:
@@kurtjustiniani1354 I agree with most of what you say, except that I think that it's authoritarians that are the problem. You can be an authoritarian capitialist or an authoritarian socialist. Either way it's the authoritarian part that attempts to force their control on others.
I'm happy to support this effort, and I think it's an important one. However, I hope you address the elephant in the room when it comes to the biggest issue with cloud vs local control: *That privacy is a luxury*. Just like the majority people won't be able to afford an electric car in their lifetime, the majority of people won't have the technical skills or resources to be able to protect their privacy. Not only is it much harder from a technical standpoint to control and manage your own data successfully, but data is what pays for services like Facebook, Google Maps, and even subsidizes products like the Amazon Echo lineup so that they are affordable for the average consumer. I'm incredibly fortunate to have the technical skills and monetary means to store my data on site, choose local control options, and encrypt my traffic to ensure my own privacy (and make videos about it), but I can tell you that it's not cheap enough, not convenient enough, and not user friendly enough for the vast majority of the population. I don't have a solution, but I'm happy to help where I can.
Well, you need to start somewhere....... electric cars will (hopefully) get cheap enough one day to be affordable. But the initial kick is necessary because without it, no development can progress.
It would not have occurred to me to think of it in those terms - that's intriguing. However, isn't part of the goal of this project to help remedy that problem by making privacy straightforward for people without the time, resources, or technical skills to do so themselves? Do you think that if tech companies didn't get as much revenue from our data, they would have to raise prices in such a way that the cost would circle back to us? I would have expected that they have enough to spare, and could still provide all the services that are most useful to the average consumer without it.
@@nordithen this was actually a point i thought about when destin was talking about changing the engine. If data isn't the currency and your no longer the product - the service will become the product and you will become a paying costumer. I thought they had a better idea and was in a state of euphoria for an outside-the-box solution until the end of the video, because there was none... Anyway I think this will be a necessary step and the direction might be right
@@nordithen Never underestimate the greed of profit-driven companies. That is indeed the one thing I fear from this push for privacy: having to explicitly pay for search engines, video hosting, social networking, instant messaging. So many services that we take for granted are paid for by our privacy, and this seems like it would push against the democratization of the internet, something i'd argue would take precedence especially in developing countries.
Another analogy that I think does a better job of portraying this than the frog one is this: "If you're a dog on a chain with 1000 links, if they reduce it to 999 links, you won't notice, but when they finally reduce it all the way down you only have 1 link left, your range and freedom is gone, and you wonder what happened."
Any one miss the days of the internet when getting free stuff didn't come with string attached? Back in the 1990s there was allot of utilities and software you could get for free, because some hardcore nerd wanted to share some cool tech with people. There was a innocence to that early internet. (man I feel old) Although I got to say, It's still possible to get lots of free products without being the product yourself. That's why I sail the high seas..... Yarrrr.
@@doooofus When using GPL software you are paying by supporting it directly or indirectly.When I help someone with the software I am contributing to the ecosystem.
I'd recommend Citizenfour more. It is a documentary created by a journalist that was with Snowden in Hongkong. It presents all the events that happened and contains real footage with the actual real people and not just hollywood actors.
Love your videos . The way you started this video confirms that the trust that has been given to you is well placed. Keep up the good work and thank you.
That is when you ask them for their bank account number, the PIN used to get money out of their bank card, and the login to the banking app on their phone.
One day after release this Kickstarter campaign has almost twice the money that they’re goal was. Soo exciting, I want to see this be the new norm. Go Destin!
Destin did a great job of explaining how. And I do trust him, but I wasn't sold in the explanation of why? Please speak more regarding the stance "I have nothing to hide"
Dustin, The data center you highlighted in this video is on the property of the former Widows Creek Power Plant, now decommissioned and demolished. Widows Creek was owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The data center sits on a small portion of the land that was the Widows Creek Power Plant property. TVA still owns the property. TVA is a public electrical utility that is actually a branch of the federal government and has major offices at the mailing address you highlighted in the video, hence the USA being listed as the owner of the site. One of the things that made this property desirable for the data center is the electrical transmission line infrastructure that existed to transmit power out from the power plant. That infrastructure has now been repurposed to bring the large amounts of power into the site for the data center.
As a privacy advocate, I appreciate the effort. However I don't see how will an app that seems to work similarly to a password manager will help with the gigantic privacy issues we have overall with big tech companies and Internet in general.
@McFlickers Then he should be educating people on already proven solutions for the people who don't know what to do. Signal and telegram should have been explained instead of just making an ad for his own company that doesn't even have a product yet
My tech teacher saw this as soon as it was released during class and decided to use it for a class. Thanks for getting both me and my teacher hooked on your videos!
Evolution of our communication processes exposes our lives to more people. Speaking only our information to a very few others. - Writing letters exposes our information to more. Recording our thoughts allows others to read our information decades/centuries later, but only if they had access to that particular letter. - Email, even more - Social media records multiple copies
All I'm saying is Destin is the man. You're the man Destin. One more thing... I've been talking about this a lot lately, I'm so glad someone influential and with a big internet presence is raising this.
In regards to the land being owned by the government, it is a way for large companies to avoid paying taxes for several years. Long story short, the company promises to hire a certain amount of local people at certain average wages, promises to lease the land for a certain number of years, etc, etc and in exchange don't have to pay tax for a while (usually a "just" a few years) on any profits generated from that physical location. Almost every large corporation you can think of takes advantage of these programs because it (almost always) ends up being a win win situation for both the company and the local area. So it's pretty darn common.
I’m sure at some point permits, violations & other inconveniences that can easily cost millions in down time daily that could potentially arise out of nowhere where the old create a problem & offer the solution will come into play because they are the go to tactics & the conversation will go along the line of “we can make all these minor issues go away, you have nothing to worry about we own the land & just need this small favor”
@@FinalStooge corporations do not pay taxes. When they do "pay taxes", they actually reduce salaries, so it is workers who actually pay. And then workers pay again (their own income taxes), and again (consumption taxes, like sale tax or VAT).
