Linux Format Magazine August 2018 Edição anterior

ESCAPE THE CLOUD
The one truly surprising part of the Information Age is the extent to which our personal information, has been commercialised. Edward Snowden’s warnings were played down as fear mongering by a privacy paranoid traitor. But recent events have shown that companies will go to any extent to collect and use our data for everything from swaying our shopping habits to influencing democracies. We’re being tricked into handing over tons of data, usually in the garb of convenience, to the many online services we use everyday on our laptops and smartphones. From the ubiquitous cookies to single-sign ons and social buttons, there’s an unending array of data accumulating technology that follows us all over the web. Join Mayank Sharma as he declares enough is enough, and stops seeding his data to popular cloud services where it’s ripe for harvesting.