Privacy My Ass (( ! ))

This project started on 13th October 2017 with the initial mandate to de-mystify and discuss only the **Privacy Statement** and **Privacy Policy** of online services but it has taken me only a couple of days to realise that doing only that would be just one dimension with what is intended with this project.

The intention to enable the reader know the truth about secure or insecure her online privacy is with the various online services of the world.

Now, the above statement is not a carefully crafted mission statement, being pondered over for ages but, has been done just now, so it would be kept iterating upon, but for the time being it fairly well serves the purpose.

the new logo is (( ! ))

the earlier one with only one pair of braces looked like only a key-hole, the new one looks like one more thing, which it was intended in the first place too but did not happen with the first iteration.

I had been struggling with publishing posts to Medium publication since more than last 6 months, as mobile has been my computing and publishing medium.

Medium does not allow you to publish to specific publication on android and with mobile browser, one cannot do any sort of publishing.

Now this is crazy for something as important a medium, which Medium has become, since a true democratic publishing platform in today's world should allow and in fact facilitate from any online connectivity medium.

Surprisingly even mobile browser usage was limited.

And all this while, all which I did was to curse myself and today morning as I was just about dozing in and off out of sleep, this divine thought come to me that there is a very simple and elegant solution to it and it is to request a desktop site via the mobile browser.

The Logo of Privacy My Ass is pretty straightforward ( ! )

Friday, the 13th is an apt day to start a project related with online privacy, after all the things are getting more and more scary with each passing day!

The launch was not intended to be today, but then some things are meant to be, when they are to be...

Not in very distant future, it is not far fletched to say that we would be hard pressed to even identify with our real self. We would be what we are not, and we won't be what we were actually.

The maze of data collected by online portals, services and apps about us and used against us only, so that we click on more and more adverts is not too far in the future would be termed barbaric.

And all this under the garb of declaration called, **Privacy Statement** which no one reads and if few people read it, they are unable to decipher the legal terminology and to what they have already acquisiced, as they landed on the site.

Needless to say, ambiguity serves the online services.