I have just finished reading through 473 fascinating introductions! My name is Farley Duvall and I am another person concerned about privacy and the Surveillance Economy that Shoshona Zuboff and Roger McNamee have been writing about.
Ironically, I grew up in Menlo Park (HQ of Facebook!) and watched tech transform the Bay Area. Studied at Cal Berkeley, and spent two decades working with large and small tech firms before moving to Europe and launching my own advisory firm. I have been an early adopter of all things tech! Hardware/software/services… After moving to Europe, Facebook became a great tool for keeping in touch with friends and family. We ran our business on Google platforms; Gmail, Docs, GoogleVoice… the list goes on and on. More than 10 yrs ago, I starting hearing that if you aren’t paying for it, then YOU are the product. But I didn’t yet conflate FREE with my privacy! It was too easy to say, “What do I have to hide…” But a few years ago, I did figure out that if “nothing to hide" is my answer, then I was asking myself the wrong questions about what privacy, and more specifically MY privacy means.
In fact, in 2017 I became so concerned that I joined a company that has created a privacy platform, www.idka.com . I hope it is ok to mention this in my introduction!
We are always looking for like-minded people to talk about apps like the Brave Browser, DuckDuckGo, Qwant… And we hope Idka can be mentioned in the same discussions, as there are not enough social or collaboration networks that have been built with privacy as a fundamental principle.
Feel free to contact me if you would like more information. We/Idka want to be part of the privacy revolution!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fduvall/ or farley @ idka.com