Privacy Polices and regulations do not create real trust, and they only serve to provide a false sense of security or privacy.
And as recent government (in)action on data breaches, ISP privacy rules, and net neutrality show, often there are no penalties at all. Not only that, they're not actually legally binding, and in the rare cases when companies actually do get caught, the penalties are unbelievably light. It turns out it’s impossible to know if an app company is violating their Privacy Policy (or violating privacy regulations in general), because there’s literally nothing stopping them: they’re Privacy Policies, not Privacy Proofs. When you ask a company about protecting your data, they respond by telling you to read their Privacy Policy, which is a document they wrote (or copy-pasted) that promises they’ll protect your data.īut wait, isn’t that circular logic? I should trust that they’re protecting my data because… they have a document that says they’ll protect my data? How do I know they’re doing any of the things they claim in the Privacy Policy? Since we’re only going to rely more on apps over time, the critical question is: How do you know if you can trust an app? Today, companies have every incentive to exploit our data for profit, and no incentive to protect our privacy. Apps even exploit this data with behavioral science to squeeze every dollar or minute out of their users, when it’s clearly against the users’ best interests.
The Internet is facilitating an insane free-for-all for our personal data, with potential consequences getting worse. After you tap “Allow” once, an app can even upload your entire photo and video library to their servers in the background while you’re sleeping. In 2019, you give apps access to your camera, location, microphone, contacts, browsing habits, even your medical records. But somewhere along the line, someone figured out how to profit from user data, and so now here’s what actually happens:Īnd that’s just sending one photo. When you send a photo to someone, your messaging app actually first sends the photo to an app’s server, which then sends the photo to them:Īnd sure, in the 90’s, when the internet was just starting to get big, this might have been what happened.
Dear Every Single Tech Company, Please Steal This Idea
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