PSST.. Data Brokers Are Not Real Brokers ;)

I want you to know the SEC does not have a securities definition for Data Brokers. They are in every way a false security ginned up to augment information markets. That is very much an Antitrust matter because the consumer cannot control the price rate of access or sale of their information to third party brokers. It is a form of price fixing.

Serial Release, Privacy is a Spider, Shows How-To Recreate Privacy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Author says DLC business model fits crisis signs-of-the-time

KIRKLAND, WA - Author and modern privacy advocate, Sheila Dean releases her first chapter in the downloadable How-To title series, Privacy is a Spider February 15, 2018.

Dean decided to publish the book as an independent serial release of downloadable content based on 3 criteria.

1.     To make content available, fitting a necessary personal relevance to readers, without buying the whole book.

2.     The ability to iterate prescriptive changes due to fast evolving legal and technical impacts to privacy and data protection.

3.     To self-fund the production of her fully authored work.

“One of the unique challenges of producing any book with currency in technology is to release a title that isn’t obsolete before it hits the shelves.  Consumer and civil privacy are experiencing chronic, war-like levels of hostility. In order to produce something relevant, [the process] required me to adopt prioritizing skills of a combat medic. You produce content so consumers can access the guidance they need to triage their own privacy,” said Dean, who spent years rewriting iterations of privacy mansuscript features.

 Privacy Is A Spider provides a holistic direction in its full form.  The complete guide aspires to help US readers prevent losses, create and recreate their privacy during and after a privacy incursion.  

“It’s very tough for consumers to watch privacy protections chronically invalidated and not know what to do. The public needs a program based on resilience, personal priorities and an ability to make a place for privacy in their lives. Hopefully that is what Privacy is a Spider delivers,” said Dean. 

Privacy, The Creative Act, the first featured chapter in the Privacy is a Spider serial will be available for purchase at, SheilaMDean.com for $2.00.  Dean’s aim is to sell enough relevant content for the book to pay for itself.  

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR -  Sheila is an active voice for more technical privacy provisions to improve the digital user experience. She hopes to optimize a new modern social discipline "to be more private". What started as a dedicated practice tour of the human rights and digital policy landscape, has landed on the edge of a technical self-leadership approach to reclaiming ownership of personal data.

PRESS CONTACT:

DBA Sheila Dean

(310) 857-8257

month2private [at] protonmail.ch

December News Digest: Chapter Release this Winter at Patreon

MOTIVATIONAL MOMENTS

“When you’re going through hell, keep going…”

– Winston Churchill

THE BAD NEWS - YOU STILL LIVE ON A HACKED PLANET

Privacy is a battered area across many forays in our society. I managed to catch the Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach. I heard the head of Equifax (US) say to Congress, “I wonder what are we trying to protect anymore?”

I think that became the most challenging moment for me in 2017, both as consumer and personal data protection advocate.   I realized demoralizing the privacy interests of every individual was someone’s goal. If your opponent couldn’t lawfully achieve that, as if you had no legal recourse or protection from their infringements, they still seek to bombard you, networks and infrastructures with smaller privacy breaches, to desensitize you to the negative effects. Why? To break down your resistance with frustration and demotivation, so you fail to fight back over your personal data property and your privacy.  

Americans are in a double bind, of sorts. We are held underneath a public-private mass surveillance aperture; which won’t relinquish much power back to the individual.  Part of the infrastructure capitalizes on voter information brokerage.  Another part forces or incentivizes private social media to do government surveillance work on the people who feel compelled to use it.  You have an opportunity to use your voice, to direct Congressional leaders to Sunset Section 702 of the warrantless surveillance act, FISA. A bill to renew it has been filed.  There is a lot of fight for you and US privacy rights in that fight.

Every day you wake up you are the Data Owner, not merely the Data Subject, a victim of theft or a serf in someone’s digital fiefdom. 

Grasp this and you have a future to self determine your privacy.

THE GOOD NEWS -PUBLISHING IS HAPPENING!

IEEE is releasing 2nd edition of Ethically Aligned Design, Ethics in Action  12/12/2017.  I contributed to the Consent section.  I also have joined other IEEE data ethics subgroup P7003 –(Addressing)Bias producing content, curating research and being helpful to ethical data standards development.  You can read the ethics production from end-t0-end here. [Updated 2/22/2018] 

'REBALANCE PRIVACY' SLUG-MARATHON 2018.

Yes. So slow.  Good solutions take time.

I have finally found my self-publishing house to produce chapters; which include privacy-accountability hacks, letters and templates to stay organized and to fight back.  The plan is to produce the initiate select chapter around February.  You can purchase directly from this website or my Patreon page.  There is a placeholder live under the 'Authoring' tab for the 2018 release.

Please tell all of your friends. (If your friends have great publishers market skills, send them my way!)

Do you have news or a personal story of how you overcame a privacy infringement?  Please write to me.  I would like to do a feature on you and demonstrate your talent.

Happy Holidays and warm wishes of confidentiality in 2018.