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Ask HN: Are We Becoming the Product?

3 points by brittpart_ ↗ HN
Big Tech (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon) collects and monetizes your personal data without any benefit to you. Don't you think you deserve some type of kickback from providing your data and that we have control of how it's used? We have to do something before we become the product.

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rvz
Yes. But we are already the product.

We're just waiting for that massive scandal waiting to happen to give that killer reason to move everyone off of those platforms.

brittpart_
My parents just for a FB Portal and I'm like do you have any idea what that's doing now? They're a little oblivious :) I'm working on a project to stop that so we can get our personal data back and use it to our advantage and have say as to what and who sees it. Everything is uploaded to your personal vault and only you have access to it www.theabook.com if you want to check it out
throwaway743
Too late.
brittpart_
So how do we get back control of our data?
throwaway743
Fantasy legislation and compliance.
brittpart_
I think we make a new platform that doesn't conform to preying on user's data and put the user in the driver's seat, www.theabook.com if you have any feedback