To commemorate today being Data Privacy day i made a writeup for OpenProducts on how we see the current situation. Since i think this is important stuff i also publish it here.
Users today have practically no control over their personal information. Most often they even have no clue on what information is gathered of them while they go on with their day to day life on the Internet, even less on how it is used. I say that its time that we take back control of our online presence and create a fairer Internet.
This is the first blog post in a series of articles discussing Internet privacy, data collection, and mass surveillance. In this first post we start by talking about the problem how the Internet works today, how most people use the it, and how they most often are being used by big data corporations and what could be done to mitigate these inequalities.