Demand change, transparency and accountability - Cozy as viable alternative (opens in new tab)

According to the FAQ:

" With Cozy, applications run in the user's personal cloud where he keeps ownership of his/her data. This simple paradigm shift changes many things.

" * personal data are aggregated in a trusted environment the user have full control on, * apps can collaborate around data, cross apps integration is made simple delivering a frictionless user experience, * there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but it seems it runs on a Cozy server instead of the user's own hardware. Therefore it is subject to being secretly copied by the government (of whichever country the server is in), at any time. Is this not correct?

If that is really how it works, I don't see how "the user have full control" as they claim.

Also the third point, "there is no need to communicate personal data to a third party because the processing is made within the user's cloud" is silly because as soon as you send your data to Cozy's servers you have then sent it to a second party and you then no longer have control.

The only real advantage I see here is that the business model (according to the claims ) is not based on the company data-mining the customers. That's a step above the likes of Facebook but it hardly compares to "control of your data".

We need open source technology that auto-encrypts data before releasing it to third party service (such as emails, chats, skypes, etc...). Although this will piss off not only NSA but all service providers as well - as they get used to like knowing your interests and subsequently spamming you.

This is very close to my dream of a user centered modern web enabled platform. I really like the fact that it promotes sharing by requiring a github account.

Definitely will try it!

I'd like to see every single chat app, mail service, or video-chat app being launched from now on offer OTR, ZRTP and PGP, or some other novelty security technology (like Bitmessage), as competitive advantages over the "big ones" like Gmail and Skype. And they need to make them as painless to use as possible, and enabled by default where's the case.

With such a low contrast, this looks like it's not intended to be read at all. So didn't read.