I don't get how any reasonable framework can exist to say such detailed efforts at curating my identity must be pushed upon others?
You want a lifelong log of your discourse? Write it in a medium you control.
This is some hyper-active nationalist zeitgeist? You are not owed a say in any and every facet of life that touches you incidentally. It's never been the case "on the ground" in America.
That said, the first messages from my wife to me still make me smile, and I'm sure that my responses that make me cringe would make her smile.
A part of me can't wait to see the President whose entire life can be cherry-picked from various servers and datacenters.
So we can add porn preferences (Hi Senator Cruz!) to list of non-issues people use when choosing the leader of the free world!
Like a train crash in slow motion - good.
This is much more crazy the more you think about. Right now there are already thousands if not millions of kids who will never be able to get a higher up political position because of what they shared on social media.
Attitudes change. Sometimes profoundly. It can be quite disconcerting when it happens.
(Or when you realise you're living in the aftermath of some previous Great Shift.)
If you save the snaps to your camera roll, then any app with photos permissions has access to them (along with any metadata). But that’s obvious.
1) The network is compromised.
2) Users have hostile intent.
3) (Cloud) storage is publicly visible.
Sorry, couldn't resist ;)
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Plat...
For those who are concerned about the privacy and are mindful enough to care about the privacy of others, putting any information on anyone else's computer (like Google's servers) is a leak. You don't know what is being done with those data, intentionally or not. And that would be the case regardless of whether or not the software is free/libre---it's being sent across a network to a destination you do not control.
Of course, information is leaked all of the time. Depending on the software that you use, your (generally, not you specifically) address book on your phone might be available to numerous remote services, and that is directly parsable by third parties, and directly tied to you and your contacts. It's up to you to consider your threat model. mynewtb's threat model is different than yours.
When I was a teenager in middle school what almost feels like another lifetime ago, I used AIM.
How can no human see the data that Google has? Google is not a magical place where machines cannot be compromised.
>To my knowledge there has never been a hack of Google's data or any leak connecting any user's identity to PII.
The Snowden leaks say otherwise. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/nsa_smile...
>This is ridiculous FUD, you're not compromising anybody's privacy by letting google drive do an OCR for you.
So it depends on your threat model. If you care about rogue Google employees or other actors with 0-day exploits, then putting information into the hands of Google is a risk.
This is quickly becoming my least favorite corporate buzzword.
Edit: a word.
As for my own data, Adium kept logs that I zipped up before I stopped using it. (And I have logs from "gaim" that predate using OSX/Adium.) I don't think it did pictures / files back when I used it, but I'd hope Adium would keep local copies of that too.
It's a damn shame that an entire generation is growing up with their chat logs locked in the cloud.
I think the idea of ownership is interesting here. I don't disagree that you should own it but then wouldn't you need to pay for it? Or did you pay for it by letting them sell your data to third party vendors? In that case, yeah you paid for it. What about Hacker News? Can you export your conversations here? Should you be able to? Meh, sorry mid-day musings.
There are privacy issues: do you disclose email addresses to establish identity?
Imagine exporting a Facebook group, it is incredibly hard to do.
Is it my data? If it is, why are you deciding for me what happens to it?
Your data associated with AIM will be deleted after December 15, 2017.
Yes, you can manually save images and files to your computer until the morning of December 15, 2017.
Whatever you thought of AIM, it's stuff like this that makes you realize just how important software freedom is. Insane that there is just no way at all, without outright hacking the program (to the extent that hacking it is possible), to export your data, that you generated, and should by rights be yours to at the very least save (and not have to comb through potentially decades of chat history to export pictures and files one-by-one).