Personal information privacy is a big concern among so many of us. But we find ourselves powerless more often than not in keeping this data under our very own control. Unless we decide to live under a rock.
My colleague in the research lab (Kristine Gloria) asked me a very interesting question over an email conversation we were having. With so many privacy tools out there, why is nothing catching on? This is what I had to say...
1. Some of them are really good and catch on eventually, but its hard to find ones that have mass appeal..Common man is not as tech savvy as we'd like to believe. They want a simpler life, even more when using a computer, a mobile phone, tablet, what have you.
2. Free is good initially but once the people behind it lose interest in their product or move onto something else, there are no updates or bug fixes happening. A product coming from a company has longer shelf life and people know about have higher reliability.
3. A lot of the free products are created for tech savvy customers. Not enough efforts are made for widespread use. The user interface has to ensure ease of use.
3. Many have come up with good ideas in concept, but the implementation is so crappy, that one begins to lose hope from such solutions.
4. Also, when i think about it, what kind of people would love to work for free and come up with softwares that offer long-term solutions? I find it hard to find good, long-lasting motivations behind them.
That does not mean I've lost hope :-)...just need to ensure good solutions are made part of mainstream and do not get lost in the bleachers!!
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