Personium – personal data store server

Re:Personium – personal data store server by willemlabu on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:51AM (#25959362)

I'm not advocating for anything specific here. :) And frankly, I take your point and actually agree wholeheartedly. The status quo of data mining and tracking is terrible, and leads to exactly what you're talking about: people changing their behaviour (not just online) because they feel like they're being watched[1].

I realise I'm not providing a solution. I wouldn't even feel confident at pointing a general direction. I'm merely pointing out that I don't believe the right way to solve this problem of personal data aggregation is consolidating all this personal meta-data into a single spot.

[1] https://www.socialcooling.com/

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Re:Personium – personal data store server by eitland on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:03PM (#25959550)

Ah, ok.

I have a couple of ideas (and/or can both be applied here to some degree):

- improve vpn to the point that people can and will use it to browse their photos.

- make hardened login solutions, run services behind that

- local hosters, stronger data protection rules

- fringe benefits at work or as part of union membership? (I admit I don't like the lock in aspect of this)

- make software local only by default

etc

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