Episode 34: Privacy and Self-Hosting

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Robert Douglass of Platform.sh about self-hosting collaboration tools, and other current privacy topics. Show notes: 0:00:54: Introduction to a couple of tools 0:02:04: Doc's take on Zoom. 0:05:13: A lot of what we do online is not especially private. 0:06:33: Apple and Google and contact tracing. 0:09:00: Healthcare is a B2B insurance business. 0:11:15: Health information and advertising. 0:13:04: Convenience versus privacy. 0:13:26: SaaS products and convenience, Facebook, Apple. Concerns of the individual versus the concerns of the many. 0:15:46: The inevitable part where we go dark. 0:16:02: We're in the weirdest moment in modern civilization. 0:20:36: Radio, Internet, Television and Trump. 0:22:21: Bill Gates. 0:23:45: SaaS collaboration tools and privacy. 0:27:20: Who can you trust with your data, especially during a pandemic among questionable actors. 0:28:00: Mattermost 0:30:23: NextCloud 0:31:07: Jitsi 0:33:19: Cost differences. 0:38:31: ideology and dogmas way easier than real life, right? 0:39:23: Edward Snowden and Signal. 0:40:35: Signal vs. What's App. 0:41:20: Self-hosting and technical skill. Privacy trade-offs. 0:44:17: Apple watch. 0:45:12: Pragmatism. 0:46:58: Zoom and security scrutiny. 0:50:54: Facebook, privacy, and politics. 0:55:29: Facebook vs. Google. 0:56:36: Zoom scrutiny and appeal. 1:02:11: Conferences, air travel, climate change. 1:08:07: COVID innovation. 1:11:23: Stay home, be safe, deploy Mattermost and wash your hands.Special Guest: Robert Douglass.