Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability

My personal solution for this is the anti-cloud. Provide open source software that virtually binds all your computing devices and allows restricted sharing with other users. The service portion is security and identity management that retains the minimum user data necessary for billing. The application portion has a unique security model and everything passively syncs and updates in real time.

I am nearing completion of the mvp after a year.

On the one hand I see the EFF do fantastic work like this deep diving into the fundamental problems with supporting centralized monopolies.

On the other hand, they are still telling people to use Signal, a centralized service that operates with the very open goal if centralizing all user communications in a proprietary closed network.

They seem conflicted.

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest

The problems of corporate concentration and privacy on the Internet are inextricably linked. A new regime of interoperability can revitalize competition in the space, encourage innovation, and give users more agency over their data; it may also create new risks to user privacy and data security. This paper considers those risks and argues that they are outweighed by the benefits. New interoperability, done correctly, will not just foster competition, it can be a net benefit for user privacy rights.