The past couple weeks I've been thinking about the importance of privacy
and how little we have. I read an article a while back and it was
talking about how Google and Facebook's mission statement sound very
noble and moral but there's no way for them to fulfill these principles
because they are a private company and have to do what's best for
shareholders (make as much money as possible).
With
that article in mind, I can't find it anywhere, I've been looking for
alternative tech services that are non profit and have the users best
interest in mind. So far I've come up with Mozilla Foundation, ToR
Project, and a handful of others.
Where
are this weird point in time where no one really knows or cares about
their data as long as google tells them an answer when they ask and as
long as they get a bunch of likes on that hamburger pic they uploaded on
Instagram.
Where are the non profits serving up encrypted email, cloud storage, anonymous browsing, crypto wallets, and more?
I'm
ready to unplug from FB but all the groups I am in have abandoned their
message boards and I don't want to miss out on the conversations....
what to do?
This is what I'm doing. I will
try to move away from Gmail for my personal email affairs and migrate
into Proton Mail. They don't have calendar services YET but say they are
coming. Next I am going to get off FB and be a contributor on the
message boards. That's all I can do. I will stay on instagram because I
don't see the harm in liking pictures. Also, Twitter, I don't use it
much, they aren't making money, so I'll keep it for now and try to use
it more. I just can't get into it.