I think there needs to be clarity about what is harvested and how. Most centralized services actually respect people’s privacy to the extent that they’re not asked to infringe it by law order.
Most major tech cos have encryption at rest and highly regulated access checks. It’s also not clear that they actually do harvest every bit of data they can. They might for the purpose of better UX within the service, but Google ads doesn’t collaborate with gmail or Google photos for example. There are, however, botnets all around the world scanning the web for security flaws.
This is why, in this sense, I argue that most people are actually better off using a safe, centralized service with encryption than try to reinvent the wheel at home and be more exposed.
Most major tech cos have encryption at rest and highly regulated access checks. It’s also not clear that they actually do harvest every bit of data they can. They might for the purpose of better UX within the service, but Google ads doesn’t collaborate with gmail or Google photos for example. There are, however, botnets all around the world scanning the web for security flaws.
This is why, in this sense, I argue that most people are actually better off using a safe, centralized service with encryption than try to reinvent the wheel at home and be more exposed.