And if a product is free, you are the product. A phrase coined back by a worldfamous American sculptor and video artist Richard Serra in 1973. These days, that phrase is everywhere and often used referring to anti-giant tech corp narrative.
Have you heard something along that line? Now, just remember that line and whenever you're signing up to an app, websites, etc and don't forget to ask yourself a simple question, am I the product?
Recently in Indonesia, the government sites have been bombarded with data leaks. The leaks included citizen personal identification from their national ID to even phone numbers. I followed the case closely because of my interest in cybersecurity and also privacy protection. This was jarring and difficult to read, especially for someone like myself, who protected my data and personal privacy as much as I could. With those recent leaks, I felt like my effort was in vain. Truth be told, it is difficult living in the country as a regular citizen to avoid so many websites and apps they created.
They have websites for just about everything and citizens must use them if they still want to use public services. Evading these websites is hard especially these days. At the same time, it's not the first time I heard about data leaks in the country, in fact since I frequent some sites, I read about it now and then. Despite those leaks already happened in the past, strangely they still didn't arm their website with better protection. s the impact of that leak, it got me thinking about people's awareness of their data and their privacy. Itโs something I am about to discuss a little bit and maybe serves as a reminder.
At some point in life, I avoided many proprietary websites and applications;although I still do these days, I am not as extreme as I was. What I did in the past was that I tried my best to avoid any applications that I don't know the source codes for. I also read terms and agreements whenever I use something. Then, after a while I started using twitter, discord, etc just because I want to socialize more. As I need to make money, I ended up slaving myself away through sites like fiverr and similar. Eventually, keeping that pseudonym can be exhausting and I fell into peer social pressure. Hatts off if you still stay anon and never reveal yourself.
This is why I hold on to believe that "human" is the weakest link in any security, even tech security. I also admit that I often gave away too much information just because I want to look a bit more approachable. Although now with data leaks in the country, there's really nothing to protect anymore.
I rarely see life through the darkest possible way but I just like to be cautious. Doxxing, hacking, persecuting someone just because they say something online are a thing these days. It's increasingly scary with people becoming karens and kevins just because they don't like something/disagree with something. There are many cases where people impersonate someone online for whatever reason including monetary gains. There are people who steal, who take advantage of someone's personal information because the banking security system isn't advanced enough or just for other reasons. There are many ways that could go wrong when our data is in the hand of someone who is desperate enough for money or just an overall psychopath. There are also people who can dislike you just by being nice and sometimes, they go to extreme lengths just to ruin your life. These scenarios aren't fictional as many of these happened and I noticed some of them first hand.
But you're on Hive, whatever you say is available on chain, permanently and can't be retracted.
You have the choice to stay anonymous. You can sign up on the site through an anonymous way that won't even be linked back to you, you don't really have to introduce yourself holding a sign revealing your face. You have the choice to write under a pseudonym and just share whatever you want. Whether you want to share what meals you had, your travel experiences, or even just your opinion, you can do it all by being anonymous and you know just exactly how the data is handled. In short, you're in control of your data and what you share. So whatever I share here has been under my consideration that I want to share those with all of you.
With people slowly gaining access to blockchain, cryptocurrency, and using social media web3, I just hope that they understand how important it is to know that protecting our data isnโt an easy job. Remember that your action, transaction, whatever you say is, on chain whatever that is and can be find. Weโve been outsourcing this task to a big corporation and now, we are given the option to take the matter in our hands. How are you going to handle your information and data?
๐๐ข๐ค ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง-๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ซ๐ข. ๐ ๐ต๐บ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฉ๐บ, ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ด, ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐บ๐ญ๐ฆ, ๐ค๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ซ๐ฐ๐บ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ท๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด. ๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ท๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ-๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ. |