CHCon MICHELLE BURKE – FOR GOOD OR EVIL: WHY DO YOU NEED MY DATA?, https://2019.chcon.nz/talks/michelle/
Our lives are lived increasingly inside the tubes of the internet and our data is flowing freely through it. Some of us have better opsec than others (and our families are probably terrible and don’t even understand what opsec means), but how we build the applications that we use for interacting often collect more than they need to. Are you actually doing the right thing or making the world a little worse?
- Because too much data are being collected for “no valid purpose”, perhaps you should feel free to provide details that don't uniquely identify you in the same way.
- Who doesn't like to receive that store voucher addressed to “Dear Princess”, just in time for your seasonal/christmas shopping sprees? You don't have to provide your real details.
- Because some places that you “trust” make terrible mistakes (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/115586450/new-zealand-depression-website-exposed-test-results-to-thirdparty-companies) and when they say “All user information collected on www.depression.org.nz is non-identifiable – no identifying information eg, names, email addresses etc are collected” they are forgetting your session cookies which link your details from other places.