Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Adrian wrote:

In message <e7169dec-9cdd-624f-f9e7-fd0548c99d5d@example.net>, D <nospam@example.net> writes

  On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, Adrian wrote:
 

In message <0310a638-3153-f886-5206-9bc8453c1f8e@example.net>, D <nospam@example.net> writes

I'm more scared about the government than the industry. With industry I always have the choice of not using it, and they depend on customers, so in  the end, that protects me.
 

 Depending on what you mean by choosing not to use it.
 I don't use any of the Meta products, but they still know about me as "friends" have uploaded pictures of me to facebook, or their contacts lists  to whatsapp.
 Adrian

 Why would they do that? It does not sound like friends to me, since they do not respect your wishes, nor your privacy.
 

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Note my use of "friends" not friends.  When I asked why I was told that what I don't know can't hurt me.

This is the truth!

As for whatsapp, as I understand it, it is all or nothing thing about what it uploads, and some of them are people that I work with, so we need each others phone numbers whilst working.  They think I'm odd for not using it.

Are you based in the US? Uploading your information, that enables someone to identify you, without your consent, is illegal in the EU and punishable by up to 4% of the global revenues of the company.
Another option is to have 2 phone numbers. One for work, and one for friends (without quotationmarks).
I use the same technique with email. I have a spam-email that currently has around 20k spam messages in it, and this is the one most companies get.

Adrian
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