Richard Stallman on Data Autonomy [video]
I&#x27;m sorry, but this is profoundly naive. If the name &quot;Richard Stallman&quot; weren&#x27;t attached to it, you wouldn&#x27;t have watched this video.<p>The world doesn&#x27;t have time for everyone to deploy their own server. I mean, honestly, ask <i>yourself</i> if <i>you</i> even have time to do this, or if it&#x27;s just yet another project that&#x27;s going to get piled on top of the Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone Black you have sitting in your projects box. Plus, everyone operating their own server is an indescribably large security catastrophe waiting to happen. IoT is a perfect example of this. Those exact same massive companies opaquely hosting your data struggle with security issues on a daily basis and even they can&#x27;t always get it right.<p><i>The answer to data autonomy is end-to-end encryption.</i> Full stop. We need a protocol that gives exact, one-to-any (one-to-none, one-to-one, one-to-many) control over sharing. That can be enforced cryptographically. It would be nice if that same protocol also had a consensus algorithm for data deletion, so we could avoid this whole &quot;right to be forgotten&quot; vs &quot;free speech&quot; debate.<p>There is at least one example of such a protocol. I know, because I&#x27;m the one developing it [1], and I&#x27;ve been incredibly frustrated at how difficult it&#x27;s been to build awareness, because my name isn&#x27;t, for example, Richard Stallman.<p>[1a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Muterra&#x2F;doc-muse" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Muterra&#x2F;doc-muse</a><p>[1b] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W3wFU4VIhww" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=W3wFU4VIhww</a><p>[1c] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;ethyr-modern-encrypted-email" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegogo.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;ethyr-modern-encrypted-em...</a>