I always talk about the importance of keeping your private data safe and personally refuse to use exchanges, sites or platforms that require such information.
However if your country is governed by a totalitarian regime, which is becoming an everyday occurance around the world , which seems to be the case more and more with each passing day, then even higher precautions are neccesary and this means only filling in neccesary information on governmental forms, such as your name, date of birth and addresss.
My reason for saying this is because of the recent reports on numerious news sites of a data breach of over 1 Billion Chinese citizens private data that was reported to be hacked from a Shanghai police database.
You may wonder why the police would harvest the data of over 1 Billion citizens in the first place, aren't they only supposed to have access to the data of known and convicted criminals, yes in a democracy that is the case, but totalitarian regimes aren't playing by the same rules and certainly don't abide by the same laws that they expect you and me to follow.
With the current state of affairs around the globe, data has become a very valuable and highly sought after commodity, one that many companies including Big pharma, The insurance industry and even Big E-commerce platforms will pay large sums for.
The world is no longer as safe as it once was and with new technological advances taking place almost daily we each need to weigh the pros and cons of availing of these advances, especially when they each come with a whole new set of problems.
Apparently the hacker that stole the data of 1 Billion Chinese Citizens has offered them for sale for 10 Bitcoins.
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Hope you are recovering well...
This article gives pause for thought... thank you for highlighting this! Data protection needs to be something that we all take a more considered approach toward in the context of the world that we now live in.
As an aside...have you ever considered using Dreemport to get more eyes on your content?
I am an ambassador for the community and project and I would love to see you sharing your posts in the Port. I think you would really enjoy the friendship and fun that we all have there too!
Take a read of this article written by our wonderful community leader @dreemsteem ...
How do I use Dreemport? It's easy!
Let me know if you'd like some help getting set up - it is really simple and super quick to do 😎 It would be fab if you would give it a try as I'd love to know what you think.
In the meantime, I am going to share a few of your posts in Dreemport this week to increase the engagement on them.
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Thank you so much Sam, appreciate the warm welcome home, I have been lightly curating, but couldn't spend too long in front of the screen to write complete articles, only short bursts here an there, my eyes still haven't fully healed but they are getting there.
I remember you mentioned dreemport to me proir to the incident and I was meaning to check it out on your recommendation, I will read the link you shared and get myself up to speed.
Does Dreemport have its own front end i.e dreemport.io, sure I will have a look and get back to you if I have any questions, glad to hear you are an ambassador there thats awesome.
Appreciate you sharing my work there also to help with engagement. Thanks pal
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Dreemport does not have a Hive frontend. It exists off-chain and brings together writers from multiple platforms for improved sharing of content and engagement.
It has a thriving community of writers predominantly from both Hive but more recently we have seen an influx from read.cash too.
The article I shared with you is written by @dreemsteem our community/project leader and includes some video content from her too. If you take a read and then go to the website and register (which is quick and easy), you will be able to curate your random 5 articles assigned to you and then share one of your own. This can be done Monday to Friday between 4am UTC and midnight UTC (curation on any given day, unlocks the submission button for that days cycle only).
If you'd like to read a review written by somebody new to dreemport at the time (you may know her from Hive or read.cash: jane1289)... you an take a look here as she provides her experience of using Dreemport and gives step by step guide to getting started from newbie perspective.
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The website is:
Dreemport
I dropped you another comment about the use of images in posts... they need to be royalty-free for sharing in Dreemport. So if you could use pexels.com, unsplash.com, Wikimedia (and cite the CCO licence ref with a link to it) or canva.com and provide URL links directly to the photos as accredition, that would be perfect as we are working to a higher standard that gives credit where credit is due to the original photographers/owners of the works.
So happy that your eyes are improving... what actually happened, my friend?
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The Hivebuzz proposal already got important support from the community. However, it lost its funding a few days ago when the HBD stabilizer proposal rose above it.
May we ask you to support it so our team can continue its work?
You can do it on Peakd, Ecency,
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All votes are helpful and yours will be much appreciated.
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I would love to share some of your posts in Dreemport this week but would need you to be using royalty-free images from royalty-free sites such as pexels.com or unsplash.com or canva.com. If you would like to get some more eyes on your content, and increase your engagement, switch out the image in this post and let me know, or tag me in your next post. !PIZZA