If we don't own ourselves, somebody else will

Have you ever thought about how much of your digital self is out there?

Every time we shop on a website, browse a news site, look for a new restaurant or even ping a friend on Facebook or Instagram, we leave digital traces. Now imagine millions of robot vacuum cleaners sniffing around for pixels of you, sucking them up and assembling them like Lego bricks into a digital profile. That is exactly what is happening now.

Why does this matter to us?

Because this digital you can now be bought and sold and exploited, and even manipulated to the point where it affects your physical life. And when you die, the digital you is still out there, roaming the digital world and still being influenced by forces and entities that have no relationship to you.

Own yourself. Own your legacy.

Digital ownership is a fundamental right, like freedom of speech, the right to privacy, or owning land without fear that the government might take it away. When you own your digital self, you control what is marketed about you. You protect your privacy. You make sure that your digital life lives on beyond your physical death in a way that is best for your children and their children.

ClearID is like digital DNA.

Before we could uniquely identify someone by their DNA, corruption around identity was almost uncontrollable. Sure, there were physical ways to establish your identity: government documents, leases, physical addresses. But all of these could be forged. DNA changed the criminal justice system dramatically. ClearID works in the same way: it positively identifies you. And with this positive ID you can decide which part of your profile you want to share. You can control your privacy. You can keep the activities of your life under lock and key and share them only with future generations.

Ownership is freedom.

Just as serfs who had no identity under a king experienced freedom for the first time when they became landowners, we too become freer when we take back our digital lives and own both our digital and our physical identity.

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SOURCE: Original article by Michael Proper

As founder of the ClearFOUNDATION, Michael Proper is a pioneer in the field of privacy protection. From this idea, the team around him developed the ClearPHONE. It makes privacy private again. The ClearOS operating system is based on Android and is constantly being developed further. After getting to know Michael Proper personally in 2018, I supported the crowdfunding as an early bird, and since the end of 2020 I have owned one of the first ClearPHONE420s.

I am happy that with this phone I can control my digital footprint again and thus reduce it.

What is a ClearPHONE? What makes it so different?

“ClearPHONE gives you control to block malware, ads, cookies, trackers, and backdoors to make your phone yours again.”

At the back of our minds we have long known that a great deal of content on the internet is purely promotional, sometimes unsuitable for our children, usually lurking just around the corner, always presenting itself invitingly everywhere and always only a few taps away.

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