How do you protect your identity and your data on the internet?
Each of us leaves a digital footprint on the internet. The only difference is how much data and information we share publicly about ourselves.
For example, my local friend doesn't use his photo or name on his profiles so that no one will associate him too much with his income or political ideology.
When you're trying to build a personal brand, you're revealing quite a bit about yourself compared to someone who's "recreationally" consuming content.
I have been building my personal brand for over 5 years (just switched markets), and it is very difficult to be transparent but also have privacy at the same time.
How do you protect your identity and privacy on the internet? đ
What (not) to share when you are trying to build a personal brand or you are about to become a "public person"?
Question for companies: What are you doing to increase the security of your users' data?
I would say that the most rewarding part of building a personal brand is sharing the results of your work.
I definitely wouldn't want to share my network (friends and family members in my physical environment).
My general rule is, don't do anything stupid, and you'll be fine.
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Good question, when building a personal brand most of our personal data should be shared with public unfortunately and there is not much to do about it. If not having a personal brand, then just decide not having social media đ.
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@eljo_prifti I think that various social media offer different levels of protection. E.g. you can hide your Facebook contacts or your birth date.
"Question for companies: What are you doing to increase the security of your users' data?"
We have developed new generation Web 3.0 unique storage methods for the web using ZKP+Steganography that provide 100% anonymity called VOID and CHAOS. We are constantly conducting robustness and stress tests and have successfully passed 2 hack events.(There will be more)
It is difficult to predict what people will or will not share about themselves, but we are building systems that store their conversations, personal information, etc. in a format that we cannot read, and do not request any personal data from them when they become members.
For example, we allow a person to confirm whether they are over 18 without disclosing it to the other person, i.e. without entering their date of birth.
Now, the AI ââera and the most important thing is data, and the personal information sets used in artificial intelligence are over. We could not protect ourselves from greedy companies, but we created this system to protect the data of future generations.
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@omer_faruk_bulut2 What is the service you developed?
@busmark_w_nika We haven't launched the system as a service yet. For now, weâre planning to release it as a product under the name NOCBY a messaging application.
Our product has completed its testing phase and is fully functional. However, since we care deeply about delivering a high-quality service, we will start with a limited number of users and operate through an invite-only system.
If youâd like to learn more, feel free to check out the links below. Youâll also find an article on our Product Hunt page where we talk about our development process and the experiences weâve gained along the way. https://www.producthunt.com/p/void-zero-knowledge-proof-nocby/hackers-are-actually-good-people-product-hunt-event-recap-confession-and-thanks-3
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@omer_faruk_bulut2 For an unknown reason, I cannot open the article. Is it also on your end? Or is it a bug?
I don't know, it's probably a bug, but you can right click and open in a new tab.
Am a little late to this but @busmark_w_nika, curious to know why you look to build a personal brand? Everyone has their own motivations and perhaps this is even a question for others that are looking to build a personal brand as well.
How do you protect your identity and privacy on the internet? đ
Password Management
Reading through Terms of Service and chatting with vendors about their compliance. Maybe there's a tool someone could build to make reading through ToS or Terms of conditions from consumer apps more digestible to the average person
Try and minimise my usage of social media.
What (not) to share when you are trying to build a personal brand or you are about to become a "public person"?
Apologies but I can't add to this one. Have never really thought about building a personal brand, hence the question above.
Question for companies: What are you doing to increase the security of your users' data?
My company runs quarterly security reviews, increases our certifications and third party audits to maintain our certifications
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@daniel_kang16 Hey Daniel, thank you for your question. In my opinion, when you build a strong personal brand, it is easier to build a strong product brand. What do you recall when I say "Apple"? Probably Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. At the end of the day, it is humans who created something special.
Regarding audits: Do you have security reviews run internally or done by a 3rd party companies?
@busmark_w_nika For us, bit of both. We have quarterly testing and iirc, yearly audits by a 3rd party
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@prahemant001 The thing is that the internet remembers everything, while individuals' memories are short when they do not take notes. That's why I think that the internet can be a harmful place where some aggregated information can "sabotage". :D