Demand change, transparency and accountability - Cozy as viable alternative(blog.cozycloud.cc) |
Demand change, transparency and accountability - Cozy as viable alternative(blog.cozycloud.cc) |
" With Cozy, applications run in the user's personal cloud where he keeps ownership of his/her data. This simple paradigm shift changes many things.
" * personal data are aggregated in a trusted environment the user have full control on, * apps can collaborate around data, cross apps integration is made simple delivering a frictionless user experience, * there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud."
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but it seems it runs on a Cozy server instead of the user's own hardware. Therefore it is subject to being secretly copied by the government (of whichever country the server is in), at any time. Is this not correct?
If that is really how it works, I don't see how "the user have full control" as they claim.
Also the third point, "there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud" is silly because as soon as you send your data to Cozy's servers you have then sent it to a second party and you then no longer have control.
The only real advantage I see here is that the business model (according to the claims ) is not based on the company data-mining the customers. That's a step above the likes of Facebook but it hardly compares to "control of your data".
you might be interested in visiting this link: cozy.io
Disclaimer, I am from Cozy and wrote the article and the FAQ.
You can self host Cozy on your own hardware or any hosting provider you trust. You are in no way tied to us.
Keep in mind we are relatively young project, in the future we will make possible to move easily your instance from one provider to another.
Definitely will try it!
Actually not even Zerocoin is enough, because it doesn't offer deniability either, but it's closer to what is needed.
Of course Bitcoin is still much better than our corrupt banking system, but for other reasons, not so much for financial privacy.
I can pay you from an account I've never used before to pay anyone else and there is no way for you to find out who I am.
In the general case, even if you do things shoddily, it would still take a massive operation so you can short-list me among the possible sources of the payment.
Lately BTC's pseudonimity is being downplayed for social engineering reasons (some of the visible faces in the BTC community have decided so). Supposedly being very anonymous is very hard work now, something for experts. But in reality it's the other way around, making yourself easy to track requires very specific usage patterns. By default almost nobody gets tracked unless they want to.