Privacy advocate @naomibrockwell tells me to stop using Gmail.
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) November 14, 2024
“Every email going into your inbox for Gmail is being analyzed, it's being scanned, it's being added to a profile about you,” says Brockwell.
Here are more private options she recommends: pic.twitter.com/c8JzRyb7bD
Brave doesn't track your search history, Google does.
Apple goes out of its way to try to anonymize your data. It doesn't store it in it's database your exact location. It uses a technique called "fuzzing."
Brave, Proton email and Tutanota [this has a free version] don't track your data. But wait, if a 3rd party stores your data for security reasons, doesn't that mean that they actually have access to it?
03:40 Every email that goes into your inbox for your Gmail account, it's being analyzed, it's being scanned, it's being added to a profile about you. Google has a terrible track record.
As soon as you connect to the internet, Android uploads to google it comes hey complete history of where you have been that day . . .
No one needs an app for Shell gasoline. Convenience is not an upside to the massive loss of privacy when we use apps or even our credit and debit cards. John's Shell app tracks a lot of data, including his travel destinations, locations, purchase history, contact information, email address, name, phone number, product interaction, purchase history, search history, user ID, product interaction, crash data, performance data, precise location, coarse location, etc. Before you down an app, take a look at their permissions.
NYC COVID-19 App?
08:35 What's App collects a lot of data about you. It shares it with its parent company, Facebook. And that data includes who you are, what time you're calling people, who you're calling, and the content of messages is end-to-end encrypted. Take a look at the default backup of your devices and whether that's just being saved into some cloud. There was a scandal where that was going on for a long time, and people thought they had private communications but actually everything was just immediately available. "WhatsApp data leaked--500 million use records for sale online," Jurgita Lapienyte, Chief Editor, CyberNews, February 24, 2023.
A document leaked by Rolling Stones a couple of years ago showed all the different private messaging apps and how they compared in terms of privacy, and Signal App was one of the best. WhatsApp was one of the worst.
09:23 They already have all my data. What's the point of going private now?
Think of it when you date someone. So they know everything about you, and you're fine with that but the moment that you end that relationship, would you still be comfortable with them knowing everything about you going forward? No, you'd probably stop them from having access to your Amazon account, your Netflix account, and access to your email. You probably wouldn't want them to have that information going forward. Privacy comes down to choice, right. It's not that I want everything that I do to remain private. I'm a public personality as well. I show videos of myself doing all kinds of crazy things. I let people in the public watch them. It's that I deserve I have the right to selectively reveal to the world what I want them to see, and currently, that's not the world.
