Currently, most companies aren't AI-ready, just as much as most AI tools aren't enterprise-ready. Without a genuine conversation about proprietary information and data ownership, we should refrain from using AI.
#AI #adoption #dataownership
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/08/chatterbox_labs_ai_adoption/

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a national digital wallet program empowering users to manage, own, and profit from their data—the first initiative of its kind globally. #Brazil #dWallet #DigitalWallet #DataOwnership #FinTech #DataPrivacy #Innovation #TechNews

#psa #fediverse #privacy #copyrights #ownership #dataownership #datasecurity

I have just defederated from Flipboard, as their Terms of Service are incredibly predatory.

https://about.flipboard.com/terms-of-service/

So here's a (short?) #thread on #flipboard 's terms of service.

Weekly output: IOWN, eSIMs, Android sneak peek, Ranking Digital Rights, Web3, data ownership in Brazil, Elon Musk’s DOGE detour, blanding, passkey adoption, Google’s AI Mode, Read AI bundles two more AI platforms

Even subtracting the posts written in previous weeks (the first and second links below) and the time I spent moderating panels at Web Summit Rio (the fifth, sixth and eighth links below), this was a busy week. And yet I wish I’d had time to write about one more thing: the brutal ruling that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down Wednesday against Apple in the long-running Epic v. Apple case. In that opinion, which essentially destroys a large part of Apple’s rent-seeking App Store strategy, the judge condemned multiple levels of Apple duplicity that included one vice president lying under oath and concluded that Apple thinking “this Court would tolerate such insubordination was a gross miscalculation.”

Patreon readers got an extra post from me this week: a recap of how Web Summit Rio highlighted the useful and cringe-inducing-to-outright-offensive sides of cryptocurrency advocacy.

4/28/2025: NTT’s IOWN pitch: long on possibilities, sometimes short on metrics, Light Reading

I wanted to get an outside perspective on the sales pitch I got from NTT at its Upgrade 2025 conference in San Francisco in mid-April (for which the Japanese telco covered my travel expenses), and the one I got from my tech-analyst pal Mark Vena pointed out some non-trivial gaps in NTT’s presentation.

4/28/2025: Why You Should Use eSIMs When Traveling Internationally, AARP

Most of the research for this happened during MWC Barcelona in early March, but various hangups in AARP’s story-assignment machinery held up the piece for a while.

4/28/2025: Why Wait? Google Teases Android 16 Sneak Peek Ahead of I/O, PCMag

This was one of the shortest posts I’ve ever filed for PCMag, owing to the lack of details in this Google announcement.

4/28/2025: More Breakdowns Than Breakthroughs in Latest Big Tech Digital Rights Scorecard, PCMag

The Ranking Digital Rights project posted its first assessment in about two and a half years of the commitments tech companies make to uphold human rights. Spoiler alert: This survey found no heroes.

4/28/2025: Does Web3 represent an opportunity or a risk?, Web Summit Rio

The last panel this conference asked me to moderate came first on the schedule–and then I went from having two fintech investors to quiz to having one, Kaszek partner Santiago Fossatti. My worries that I’d have to improvise at length to fill this timeslot evaporated once I saw how he’d answer my questions at length.

4/29/2025: Owning your own data, Web Summit Rio

I’ve been watching and moderating Web Summit panels about data ownership and privacy for years, but this one–featuring Brittany Kaiser, co-founder of the Own Your Data Foundation; Rodrigo Assumpção, CEO of Brazil’s social-security firm Dataprev; and Gustavo Franco, former governor of Brazil’s central bank–outlined some real-world steps happening in Brazil to make that vision a working reality that might yield some modest extra income for citizens who opt in.

4/30/2025: 100 Days of DOGE: Is Elon Musk’s Protective Layer of Sycophants Thinning?, PCMag

I wrote up a very good panel featuring New York Times tech reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, in which the authors of the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter unpacked how Musk has given the federal government the same treatment he inflicted on Twitter.

4/30/2025: AI and the rise of blanding, Web Summit Rio

Title notwithstanding, this panel with Camila Moletta, CEO of More Grls, and Lisa Smith, global executive creative director of Jones Knowles Ritchie, was less about AI than about graphic design in advertising.

5/1/2025: 75% of People Are ‘Aware’ of Passkeys, But Are They Actually Using Them?, PCMag

I wrote up an embargoed copy of a survey about passkey adoption that had some stats that confused me, so I e-mailed the publicist to get more context and then quoted his explanation in the post. After publication, the PR guy asked if we could take his name out of the story because he works for an outside PR firm; I replied that my editor would probably be fine with that (which was true), but that he needed to make that request upfront instead of incorrectly assuming some default setting of anonymity for PR types.

5/1/2025: Google Drops AI Mode Waitlist, Adds Shopping Tools: Here’s How to Try, PCMag

I filed my last copy for April from my hotel room in Rio a little before midnight on April 30. Being able to put one last bit of work on a monthly invoice can be a powerful motivation.

5/2/2025: Why Have One AI Service When You Can Have 3? Read Bundles GPT-4.1, Claude, PCMag

I didn’t have this on my story-possibilities list for Web Summit, but I got into a conversation with the CEO and publicist of the AI service Read on a shuttle from the convention center back to the hotel, which led to the publicist asking if I’d like cover Read’s imminent announcement of it bundling two other AI services, which led to my quizzing Read CEO David Shim in the speaker lounge Wednesday.

#advertising #AIMode #blanding #Brazil #cryptocurrency #dataOwnership #Dataprev #DrumWave #eSIM #eSIMs #GoogleAISearch #IOWN #NTT #owningYourData #passkeys #photonics #ReadAI #Rio #WebSummitRio #WorldPasswordDay

Hello, I'd like to ask you to help me rectify my general plan or maybe the whole intention of to install freebsd to rpi4 as a server where I'd like to have jail for nextcloud, jail for homeassistant and nas. I'd like to use for freebsd the ssd storage with zfs 1TB (connected by USB), data encrypted, set wireguard to my external vps to be able to connect from anywhere. The whole idea is powered to learn something and really own my data.
plan:
1) dd rpi4 image of freebsd to SD card
2) boot SD card
3) manually set zfs to ssd connected by usb. set encryption to everything else than / /usr and /boot, if I used FDE I am unable to connect just with ssh then
4) manually install freebsd without bsdinstall command because of encryption. I am not sure about this point how to do it
5) reboot to sd card again, import zpool = mount the ssd disk
6) set correctly boot files (copy) the rpi4 it should be copy of u-boot.bin and maybe other files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
but I am also not sure about this point what is the right solution. When I ve just install the freebsd to ssd with bsdinstall without encryption the freebsd did not boot from ssd even though I set ssd as first to boot in order with rpi-eeprom. so some tweaking is needed I suppose

It looks like that running encrypted freebsd on rpi4 on separately ssd disk is not easy so maybe the whole idea is wrong.

Thank you for advices

#freebsd #raspberry #dataownership

So, you mean to tell us you bravely abandoned your fancy-schmancy #CMS for a bash script that generates static sites? 🤔 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" like hopping back to the Stone Age of web development. 🪨💻 Well, at least you "own your data" now, whatever that means. 😏
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/ #Disruption #StaticSites #WebDevelopment #DataOwnership #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

> Make sure you own your AI. AI in the cloud is not aligned with you; it's aligned with the company that owns it.

not mine words but very true

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataOwnership #Privacy #BigTech #CloudComputing #TechEthics #DigitalRights #SelfSovereignty #Decentralization

🤔 Oh, the joy of trying endless apps just because they can swap data like a middle school dance! Let's all cheer for #interoperability, aka the blandest tech buzzword of the century. 🙄 Honestly, why own your data when you can just play pass-the-parcel with it?
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/love-for-interoperability/ #dataownership #techbuzzwords #appdevelopment #userexperience #HackerNews #ngated

No login. No cloud. No tracking.
121Drop is a backup app that works offline—no internet, no subscriptions, no strings.

You control the process, the storage, and your data.

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Join the waitlist if you’re ready for real control: https://is.gd/W9NUK9
#121Drop #NoCloud #PrivacyFirst #DataOwnership #OfflineApps

Selhosted P2P E2EE File Transfer & Messaging PWA

* #OpenSource
* #CrossPlatform
* #PWA
* #iOS, #Android, #Desktop (self compile)
* App store, Play store (coming soon)
* Desktop
* #Windows, #MacOS, #Linux (self compile)
* run `index.html` on any modern #browser
* #Decentralized
* #Secure
* #NoCookies
* #P2P #encrypted
* No registration
* No installing
* #Messaging
* Group Messaging (coming soon)
* Text Messaging
* #Multimedia Messaging
* #Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
* Offline Messaging (in #research phase)
* #FileTransfer
* #VideoCalls
* #DataOwnership
* #SelfHosted
* GitHub pages Hosting
* #LocalOnly storage

Check it out!

https://positive-intentions.com

(Degoogled links to the apps)
- Chat: https://chat.positive-intentions.com
- File: https://file.positive-intentions.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions

😂 Ah yes, because who needs cloud calendars when you can dive into the abyss of self-hosting chaos? 🙄 Welcome to part 1 of "How to Make Your Life More Complicated," where we pretend owning our data is just a simple Python script away. 🤦‍♀️
https://emilygorcenski.com/post/owning-my-own-data-part-1-integrating-a-self-hosted-calendar-solution/ #selfhosting #chaos #cloudcalendars #dataownership #pythonhumor #techirony #HackerNews #ngated

I've build a stack for an open productive environment 🚀

- Core (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Adminer und Traefik)
- Website: Drupal
- Version control: Gitlab
- Mail: Mailcow
- Drive: Nextcloud
- Office: OnlyOffice
- Project management: OpenProject
- Notes: Hedgedoc

It needs 6cores-16GB-RAM-something to run 🏃

If this works out: good bye github, google, onedrive, msoffice!

https://gitlab.nasarek.dev/rnsrk/open-productive-stack

#OpenSource #SelfHosted #Homelab #DevOps #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #DataOwnership #CollaborationTools

What if I change my online presence from "my data is to be mined and I and my data are the product" to something more like: "the data that I choose to sell is for sale," along with the price I agreed to, driven by the market? #DataOwnership #DigitalFreedom #OnlineIdentity #TechEthics #PersonalData #DataSovereignty

Discover how data governance shapes business success. Real stories, best practices, and debate on data quality and security. #DataGovernance #DataQuality #DataSecurity #DataStewardship #DataManagementBestPractices #DataCompliance #DataOwnership #DataLineage #DataCulture #DataDrivenDecisions #DataAudit #DataTrust #DataProtection #DataStewardshipTeam #DataDictionary
https://medium.com/@sanjay.mohindroo66/data-governance-best-practices-ensuring-data-quality-and-security-62cc1aae0f1f

This morning, I was on the phone with a potential client, and I suggested they migrate to a NextCloud solution instead of their current cloud provider. When I explained that one of the main reasons, in my opinion, is to remain the owner of their own data, they reacted ironically, saying that at that point, people like me would have access to all their data. They seemed less worried about a large cloud provider than about a company "closer" to them.

I explained that they could encrypt everything, but they weren’t entirely convinced.

We parted ways on good terms, but with little hope.

Two hours later, they called me back. They did some research and asked a few colleagues. They’re now considering the idea and even apologized for the joke.

There was nothing to apologize for; it's just that some dynamics can be unclear (especially since we're so used to the promises of salespeople, often far from reality).

#DataOwnership #Encryption #TechTrust #PrivacyMatters

Selhosted P2P E2EE File Transfer & Messaging PWA

https://positive-intentions.com

A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:

* #OpenSource
* #CrossPlatform
* #PWA
* #iOS, #Android, #Desktop (self compile)
* App store, Play store (coming soon)
* Desktop
* #Windows, #MacOS, #Linux (self compile)
* run `index.html` on any modern #browser
* #Decentralized
* #Secure
* #NoCookies
* #P2P #encrypted
* No registration
* No installing
* #Messaging
* Group Messaging (coming soon)
* Text Messaging
* #Multimedia Messaging
* #Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
* Offline Messaging (in #research phase)
* #FileTransfer
* #VideoCalls
* #DataOwnership
* #SelfHosted
* GitHub pages Hosting
* #LocalOnly storage

Check it out!

(Degoogled links to the apps)
- Chat: https://chat.positive-intentions.com
- File: https://file.positive-intentions.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions

The Cloud: The Big Lie We’re All Buying Into https://tomsitcafe.com/2025/03/25/the-cloud-the-big-lie-were-all-buying-into/ #cloudsecurity #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #infosec #cloudrisks #databreaches #DeadSwitch #dataownership #cloudillusion #techillusion

Pasar de usar los producto de #meta y #google a #redesFederadas o alternativas es una decisión que me hace sentir bien pero a la vez custa mucho, porque despues de mas de 20 años uno depende muchisimo de esos servicios.

Desprenderse de cosas es un proceso lento y a veces doloroso y creo que habrá cosas que siga necesitando bastante tiempo pero creo que después me va haciendo feliz.

#dataownership #dataprivacy #fediverso #fediverse #decentralization #foss

One of the things I've been advocating for years - and where I want to raise my voice even louder - is the importance of owning your data. #OwnYourData

Over the past few days, I’ve come across two examples of how misinformation is causing immense damage, leading people to believe that there's no alternative but to hand over their data to big corporations, putting themselves entirely in their hands.

- A well-known lawyer, just before a meeting, warned about using Teams and its new "virtual assistant," which joins conferences before anyone else and transcribes everything. When I pointed out that it would be wise to use alternative tools (like Jitsi, for example, but there are others), he abruptly ended the conversation, saying, "We've lost this war. There's no alternative anymore."
That wasn’t the right moment for a detailed discussion, so I just noted that alternatives do exist - but if no one starts using them, and if we passively accept certain behaviors from certain companies, things will never improve for us.

- Just now, I received another one of those emails that hurt more in the heart than in the wallet: "Our e-commerce is taking off, so we’re moving it to Shopify to better manage our growth."
I replied, trying to explain that handing over a growing e-commerce business to a third-party company (right now, they have full access to their own server - meaning all their databases, data, etc., are under their control) means losing ownership of it. Prices could change at any moment, contract terms could shift negatively, and, worst case scenario, if Shopify itself faced issues (which seems impossible today, but think of giants like Kodak), they could lose everything. Of course, they’ll do what they think is best, but I feel obligated to warn them.

Luckily, others are making the opposite choice. But I keep wondering: since these big platforms aren’t exactly cheap, rather than "selling themselves" to them just for (potentially) fewer headaches, wouldn’t it be worth paying someone (not me, of course, but someone working exclusively for them) to handle these things - ensuring they retain full ownership of their business and their data?

#DataOwnership #Decentralization #BigTech #DataRights #MyDataMyChoice #TakeBackControl

Selhosted P2P E2EE File Transfer & Messaging PWA

https://positive-intentions.com

A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:

* #OpenSource
* #CrossPlatform
* #PWA
* #iOS, #Android, #Desktop (self compile)
* App store, Play store (coming soon)
* Desktop
* #Windows, #MacOS, #Linux (self compile)
* run `index.html` on any modern #browser
* #Decentralized
* #Secure
* #NoCookies
* #P2P #encrypted
* No registration
* No installing
* #Messaging
* Group Messaging (coming soon)
* Text Messaging
* #Multimedia Messaging
* #Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
* Offline Messaging (in #research phase)
* #FileTransfer
* #VideoCalls
* #DataOwnership
* #SelfHosted
* GitHub pages Hosting
* #LocalOnly storage

Check it out!

(Degoogled links to the apps)
- Chat: https://chat.positive-intentions.com
- File: https://file.positive-intentions.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions