In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you. Together, we must start building a culture of data privacy where everyone cares for the data of others.
I’ll never be happy about almost every smartphone user I know happily putting my personal details into their phone, which then sends them to the likes of Google, Apple, and Facebook.
I de-googled my phone and sync my contacts to a trustworthy server. I hope this will eventually be easy for everyone.
I made my family Switch to degoogled ROMs and I self-host all the drop in replacement software BC of this. I just can’t get my brother to switch BC hes an iPhone loyalist for some reason.
Doesn’t Apple Contacts support CardDAV natively? These sites say it does:
https://sabre.io/dav/clients/ios/
https://devguide.calconnect.org/CardDAV/Client-Implementations/
I set that stuff up but whether or not he actually uses it remains to be seen. I know he uninstalled Nextcloud Notes in favor of the iCloud one. Hes really just kind of a prick sometimes.