Links: Kaval Park movie, and a privacy guide

[sonia]

Kaval Park, a full-length documentary about Alexander Eppler, an extraordinary American musician who specialized in Balkan instruments, including the shepherd's flute known as a kaval. He lived in Seattle, and the documentary includes other Balkan dancers and instrumentalists from the community there, as well as interviews with Bulgarians who knew him. I don't often watch movies, and this was fascinating. He went to Bulgaria by himself when he was 14 years old to learn kaval, while it was still a closed communist country!

Queer Dating Apps: Beware Who You Trust With Your Intimate Data by Em, staff writer for Privacy Guides. A thorough analysis, with the depressing conclusion that none of the dating apps are trustworthy with your private data, and suggestions for how to protect yourself if you use them anyway.

Comments

[ofearthandstars]

Somehow I am completely unsurprised that dating apps have anyone's data privacy in mind. *sigh*

[sonia]

Yeah. On the one hand, it would be nice to find a partner and that's hard to do if I'm not dating. On the other hand I've looked at the terms of service for a couple of dating apps and backed right out.

[silveradept]

How disappointing that the options for people who don't have a major metropolitan area nearby to do their dating and seeking in are basically to use data-intrusive apps and hope that they aren't targeted or the company doesn't have a breach or sell the data to people who shouldn't have access to it in the first place.

(And even worse when you're trying to do queer dating, because that necessarily means you have a smaller pool of people to try and hide appropriately in.)

[sonia]

I agree, super disappointing.