First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

It's #DataProtectionDay again, and the same applies to all theme days: We need them to generate attention for problems.

We would therefore like to remind you that it is often not even necessary to establish a personal reference in order to work with data. That is why we are appealing to you today to think critically: Am I really implementing #DataMinimization consistently in my organization?

#PreachingToTheChoir #GDPR

Tiny Privacy Tip for Organizations 🔘🔒:

1. If you are not absolutely required to be able to contact people by phone, do not make a phone number field mandatory in your forms ☎️🚫

2. If you are not absolutely required to be able to mail/ship something, or visit someone in-person, do not make a home address field mandatory in your forms 📪🚫

3. Do not make mandatory (or even request) any data in a form that you do not *absolutely require* to fulfill the purpose of this form 🚫

4. If you use a third-party vendor for your forms, make sure to remove any piece of data you do not actually absolutely need to collect. If you can't, select a different vendor that will allow you to 🔒👍

Yes, this mandatory by law.

#TinyPrivacyTip #Privacy #DataMinimization

People who use social media other than Mastodon    :

If you are still using some [BigCorpSocial™️] social media account(s),
I highly recommend maintaining a good data privacy hygiene on there. Especially because of all the data collected from these platforms, most recently, infamously, for scanning all your posts to feed For-Profit-AI-Machine™️

One important step to improve your data hygiene is to delete the older posts that are no longer useful to you (you can do this automatically on Mastodon by the way)  

Many [BigCorpSocial™️] have rendered this task more difficult recently by removing features previously provided to third-party developers.

BUT there is a fantastic desktop app developed by @micahflee coming up for this with a workaround!  

Semiphemeral! ✨

Semiphemeral will make it possible for you to delete your older posts from your [BigCorpSocial™️] accounts, according to your preferences.

I don't often recommend tools like this,
but this one is a great one:

Privacy by Design ✅
From a trustworthy source ✅
Top practices for data minimization ✅
Runs locally ✅

I highly recommend it to anyone with social media accounts outside of the Fediverse.

Read on the latest developments here: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/

Subscribe to get updates: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/#/portal/signup

Donate so it gets ready faster!   https://semiphemeral.com/donate/

Follow Semiphemeral on Mastodon: @semiphemeral

#Privacy #DataMinimization #DataDeletion #Semiphemeral #Twitter #X

Choose the bird that you want to see in the world 💙

Twitter? 👎

@semiphemeral ? 👍

#Privacy #DataMinimization #PrivacyByDesign #Twitter #X

Exciting Privacy News! 🔒 

If you, like me, are a
big fan of deleting you own data online when you do not need it anymore to reduce your digital prints,

I highly recommend following this amazing project: https://semiphemeral.com/like-a-phoenix-semiphemeral-will-rise-from-the-ashes/

Semiphemeral once helped me immensely while deleting my 24,000 tweets to prepare my Twitter-Exit  

I am extremely pleased to read this tool will not only be brought back by its creator @micahflee but will also have incredible new features!

All built with a privacy-first mindset ✨

Thank you Micah! I can't wait to see Semiphemeral fly again.

Subscribe here to get news of its development and release: https://semiphemeral.com/#/portal/signup 👀

#PrivacyNews #Privacy #PrivacyByDesign #DataMinimization #Semiphemeral