Looking at STEEM & Privacy

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I'm not promoting Snowden or any kind of political view with this post. I just happen to watch, or more often listen to Joe Rogen's interviews because they inspire me.

This particular podcast did lead me to think about my status of privacy. There is a lot of stuff online considering my persona. It's not too hard to attack me on any part of my public statements and every day it's getting easier.

Obviously there is some Manni inside me, that is scared whether if this might catch up to me in a bad way. Well that being written, trust me it already does, but maybe soon too often or too extreme!

Still, I'd rather consider myself brave and go for more public life than chicken away.
Manni 2019

When it comes to STEEM, basically everything is super public and some of us here have already started talking about private STEEM wallets... I think it's a good thing to talk about privacy in the uprise of an age of unlimited media dependency.


The Snowden Interview that I just have been watching was this one:


1. Data and Privacy

Listening to this interview reinsured just one thing inside my mind, private data is not real. As soon as you create data, it will be accessible to someone beyond your control. You can set that little button in your setting to 'private' but that will only impact a more or less powerless range of persons. The once who really are interested in your data, interested enough to pay for it, these people will get access to it.

If there would be a button in your phone, that says "don't spy on me" everyone would use it! But that button does not exist.
E. Snowden

But Manni, you're talking like a crazy person! If I set my birthdate to private, then none can see that anymore. Well, if you mean your friends with 'none', that is right.
But Facebook (to just name one) would still sell to advertisers that you might want to get birthday gifts and digital wishes around that time of the particular month.
Isn't that great?
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The system is infected with data worms. These worms eat all your data (private or public) and make trillions of dollars with it. By today we all have a place in their world. They even decide what data is. They redefine it and then break your whole existence down to their definitions of it.

But what does that mean?


2. Dig deeper and get practical

Let's play media company now and start questioning:

Do I rather tend to be right or left, favor red or blue as a color or might be interested in a new computer gadget of any kind?

I'd say depends on the topic, blue and yes. No problem so far.
They might agree, or not, they will sell their opinion on me anyway to their advertisers.

Will I get cancer in my life, change my job soon or commit digital crimes next year?

I'd rather not speculate about this and still, they can pin me somewhere and sell their opinion. They will sell it to whoever wants to pay for and tell them that it's 99% sure.

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Scary right? Where is the privacy setting to turn that off?
Certainly there is even more to worry about, that is not the end of the line. Considering the vast amounts of data that I create, I'm deep-fried already. Everything depends on asking the wrong question about me.
So I've lost control, a long time ago, or have I? - YES, we all have.

There is not a single person on this planet that is unknown to the big Media Giants. They scan the web have owe satellites and use the most advanced AI systems.

Overthinking it, I visualize it like this:

The showmaster is artificial intelligence. I am a guest in his talk show on worldwide broadcast and the showmaster already knows everything about me, far beyond what anyone could ever want to ask. It sounds bad, it looks bad and it feels even worse. He can decide upfront if I win or lose, since he sets the question.


3. My way

Of course, this topic is endless and time is not. I will try to round it up right here and leave you with at least one positive thought. Not all hope is lost!

My solution is being offensive and deciding where I stand myself. I openly communicate where I stand and I do it on a platform where my data actually belongs to me, welcome to my STEEM blog.

Thanks a lot for reading.

Have a nice one, Manni



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Steem is good practice that everything is public but with Steem the content creator rather than the Big Tech middle man gets paid.

Privacy of financial transactions is a basic human right. It would be nice to have secret Steem transactions.

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Yes you absolutely right, it is good practice!

Do you have a concept for "secret Steem transactions" without going centralized?

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