EU is pushing forward with the move to eventually ban data transfer to the US. This is good and bad. A s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶ s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ thread. https://t.co/OywdiNncbQ 20 atbildes
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:54) |
EU is pushing forward with the move to eventually ban data transfer to the US. This is good and bad. A s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶ s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ thread. https://t.co/OywdiNncbQ | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:55) |
Let's start with the bad. DC has posted an apocalyptic take on this. I'd say only about 20% of what he's saying is correct. He is exaggerating. To the same effect folks 160 ago would've said "Emancipation Proclamation will destroy most of the agriculture!" https://t.co/diJrsIMKRY | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:56) |
And I'm sure some actually did say that. And they were 20% correct. Yes, agriculture had to be reimagined, land owners lost a huge profit margin, hell, maybe some of them even had to sell a portion of their land. But what about the greater good? | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:56) |
Are we better off as a worldwide society because slavery has been abolished? Yes. Don't @ me, if your answer is no. Here come the good aspects of this EU push. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:57) |
First of all, I must address that technically Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, "biz software" or most of the layer 7 stuff has nothing to do with the internet working. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:57) |
The closest we were to the "shutdown" of the internet lately was the inaccessibility of DNS root keys and the RIPE/GDPR debacle. And both of those were light years away. https://t.co/FDnvbpu0YD https://t.co/K4WQrcLv46 | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:58) |
I'm including the latter as an acknowledgement that, yes, legal stuff can mess with the technical workings of the internet. RFC7725 was negatively received by the internet community, including myself, because we perceived it would legitimize censorship. https://t.co/Xc2yuojMbJ | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:59) |
But now (in post-GPDR era) I see that it's actually a powerful tool for the better. It allows us to have a measure of clarity and directly see the detrimental effect censorship is having on the internet. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 00:59:59) |
Furthermore, "Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp" is not just "not the internet", but they are all run by the same company. A US-based company with dubious (at best) privacy practices. And, I think all three of these services *can* exist if this ruling is enforced. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:00) |
The solution? Federated social networks. I know that for most social networks this is not the direction they are looking towards as mastadon etc. are looking to take "the business" away from the social network monopoly. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:01) |
I also know that some social networks (e.g. twitter) are proactively researching possible support for federalization. I never understood why but today I see it! | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:01) |
Having separate social networks per country/region and only sending data across borders makes more sense than the alternative of storing all the data in Europe. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:02) |
It also enables the user to make a genuine decision "I agree to send data abroad *because* I want to connect to my buddy in the US". So now the user understands and supports the necessity behind the transaction. Just as GDPR intended. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:03) |
Additionally that's quite close to how the internet actually works today anyway. Just CDNs in almost every country sharing data between them. I'm not at all happy about it but it's true. https://t.co/9AoJc982zO | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:04) |
Enabling gated federation is the first step to making government-mandated open federation for social networks a reality. That way one day we may see the market share of the social giants diminish. And with that we get some of the classic functioning of the internet back. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:04) |
Now, the software packages used by the biz is another story but that model is based on the same wrong assumption - that centralizing the data of all your clients is a normal thing to do. It is not. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:05) |
Client data should stay in their country. Business client data should not even leave the company hardware. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:06) |
Webapps of 2020 are a paradox. For some reason companies want to force users to push the data to their servers for processing and the proceed to outsource 90% of the CPU cycles back to the users via JavaScript. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:06) |
I fully support what IE is doing here in the name of EU. It might break or destroy some business apps but better (or local) alternatives will pop-up immediately. We *don't need* a new agreement to replace Privacy Shield. We need our data to not leave EU/EEA. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:07) |
This will force large US companies like Facebook and Google to abolish data-slavery, change their technological and business models but it's totally doable and nothing on the internet is preventing a fair model from working. | ||
Kirils Solovjovs (2020-09-11 01:00:08) |
And my support has nothing to do with the fact that Google owes me money and is blatantly ignoring my GDPR letters and court summons. |