Big Tech Is Compromised: How to Reduce Your Footprint
As a user, Consider Offshoring Your Data and Services Privacy is a human right. Privacy requires data protection. I want America to do better. I want American tech companies to do better. I think that will take a long time, and while we work on it, we are where we are because we allowed it all to happen. At this point, there’s a good argument for considering all Big Tech, prominent US-hosted services, some US-made software and, since long, the entire US network essentially compromised, at minimum as far as privacy goes. The tech oligarchs are seemingly submitting to the current regime, and some are directly involved with what’s likely the most significant personal data breach in history. The eventual result of all this could make Snowden-era PRISM, Boundless Informant, MUSCULAR and XKeyscore surveillance mechanisms look like baby monitors. ...