Why privacy matters

[WNTRjon]

I am blessed to not think about privacy much in my day-to-day life.

But when you get that message that someone logged into your email or something, it's one of the worst feelings.

Privacy matters to me.

[Sethrey]

I am blessed to not think about privacy much in my day-to-day life.

But when you get that message that someone logged into your email or something, it's one of the worst feelings.

Privacy matters to me.

That's why I love services like Utopia p2p as it will never happen there. By the way, they also announced a wide promo action for miners yesterday https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5349259.new#new Seems like a good opportunity to earn some extra coins +a part of the prize pool.

[Starkick]

Are you planning to take part in it? As far as I remember, the last bounty was quite successful and without any problems.

[Mauser]

Personal information is the biggest commodity of the Internet. All the big companies need it to feed their algorithm on what kind of products to over us. That is why privacy is so important. We shouldn't give our data away for free. First of all we should be informed on what kind of information is being collected and where its being sold to. Just look at the Robin Hood broker disaster. They offer the cheapest trades but will sell your information to hedge funds who are going to frontrun you. We need to protect ourselves better.

[Phanditha Echevarria]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

[bitterguy28]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

Can you tell us the story behind this mate? and also why are they calling you ?

Exchange seems to be not ethical to contact their users without very important matters that the user seek for their help.

This is an obvious scam site if does.

[hornetsnest]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

If you have received a call from someone misrepresenting themselves in this manner or attempting some form of deception by wire you should ask them the questions. Firstly ask them their name,organisation,address and landline,organisation extension number. Verify their particulars with the legitimate organisation through a third party/person and reengage with them through their swithboard extension.

If they are fraudulent firstly alert the organisation they are misrepresenting and then your phone company. There are many ways to trace fraudsters or persons harrassing you and you can also alert relevant authorities if the organisation or phone company does not cooperate. Fraudsters and other practicioners of deception working for whatever reason in this manner use a number of tactics from cold calling to door to door surveys,online banking fraud using malicious links,package deliveries,honeytrap,utility maintainence for information and access etc to name but a few.

If they start the sentence with .."Nothing to worry about" "Just a few questions" "Could I have a moment of your time" etc,then you should firstly verify the person you are speaking to through the method above but ensuring the organisation they are resresenting is a legitimate well established one and not just a burner company set up for such practices.

[Sethrey]

Are you planning to take part in it? As far as I remember, the last bounty was quite successful and without any problems.

The previous bounty was held by the hired bounty manager and not it's all about the soft and devs. I'm in already and I've learned that up to 50 mining bots can be active on one PC. That's pretty awesome and I hope I'll get into the numbers of luckies to receive a part of the big prize pool.

[Starkick]

Cool! I wish you success in mining and in promo! I will not stop rejoicing at how the project is a success and enjoys growing popularity among users.

[hornetsnest]

Is this now an ICO thread? wen moon,wen lambo?

[datura12]

The problems with privacy is that for every 1 person who cares  and try to stay protected there are 150 that don't give a flying duck about it, and if you want to communicate with some of that 150 you have to go mainstream. I tried using minds when was released, as alternative to social media where you get organic and not manipulated post, and till this day I don't have any friends who are using it. So no matter how you try there will always be some weak spots.

[Sethrey]

The problems with privacy is that for every 1 person who cares  and try to stay protected there are 150 that don't give a flying duck about it, and if you want to communicate with some of that 150 you have to go mainstream. I tried using minds when was released, as alternative to social media where you get organic and not manipulated post, and till this day I don't have any friends who are using it. So no matter how you try there will always be some weak spots.

Especially if you look for some more private alternatives to social media or popular messengers, Utopia p2p will be really interesting for you. The only minus is that mobile app is still developing, but I like to use it on PC as an alternative to Telegram, which turned out to be not very secured.

[peter0425]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

Keep a multi account in social media and even in providing emails, use a dummy email in registering in not so important matters because most of those sites are just there to sell our KYC to third party user.

[swiftxi]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

Keep a multi account in social media and even in providing emails, use a dummy email in registering in not so important matters because most of those sites are just there to sell our KYC to third party user.

This is good advice.I always keep my real account with a separate password and keep it clean. Unless its the prince of Nigeria , Then I always accept his calls
Most importantly you need to be able to spot which people, website and services will forward your information to 3rd party buyers ! And remember secure connection SSL even advanced SSL can be bought for 10 $

[Starkick]

Yes, but there is no denying the fact that there are many more ways in which global corporations track our data. Data freedom and privacy are only in the part of the Internet that cannot be indexed.

[Shasha80]

Can I tell you the fact that I have recently received a lot of harassing calls pretending to be an exchange. I am anxious. Privacy is really important. But in a centralized exchange, it is difficult to achieve complete privacy.

Keep a multi account in social media and even in providing emails, use a dummy email in registering in not so important matters because most of those sites are just there to sell our KYC to third party user.

With many cases of selling users personal data to third parties, makes us really have to be more careful when going to join some platform.
If we don't sign up for a platform with matters that are not so important, it's best not to use our real email. Because to prevent our personal
data from being misused by irresponsible people, sometimes if i register some social media using new email. We also have to be careful when
sharing our cellphone numbers, because a lot of incoming messages or calls for deceptive purposes. Today where many frauds are committed
in the online world, we really have to be careful to protect our personal information, don't let our personal data fall into the hands of
irresponsible people.

[MKings]

• Because everyone has everyone’s secret, everyone has the idea of not wanting to be disturbed by others,
• Protecting privacy is the key to protecting our freedom of thought and speech. Everyone will have different thoughts and opinions. We should respect everyone's ideas.
• To respect privacy is to respect others.
• The protection of privacy is a respect for human freedom and dignity, and it is also a sign of the progress of human civilization.
• Do not disclose other people's personal materials or publish other people's information on the Internet.

[Sethrey]

And what do you guys think about Alt-tech applications and websites? I think they were created exactly to give users a freedom of speech and certain anonymity online. It's bad that they gain popularity through the QAnon movement, but at least more people get acquainted with them. Utopia p2p on the whole can also be called an alt-tech app as its main aim is to give people online anonymity and freedom.

[mabeyak]

Everything that was made in Silicon Valley is an infringement on people's privacy. Unless there is a major change to the way social media companies monetize their services, there will be no improvement on this issue.
Now monetization is done through ads and data collection, which I believe should be illegal. I would much rather pay a small fee per activity(post, like, etc.) to every service that I use than have everything collected into a database then sold to the highest bidder.
I think privacy matters because every man has fears and thoughts that if known, could put him at a disadvantage.

[Louis Harper]

Privacy is the most basic security issue between people. It is related to the issue of respect for both parties, and reputation is a life-long issue. The protection of privacy is to protect a person and is also derived from a sense of security.