Funded by two experienced entrepreneurs and technologists (Michel Gien, CEO and Christian Jacquemot, CTO), Twinlife, the company that develops twinme, aims at challenging the current telecommunications and instant messaging services relationship model, based on your mobile phone number. This number is being used as a universal identification mechanism and yet it is public and processed by mobile applications that access your device address book without authorization from the numbers’ owners.
Your digital life personal information has become a product through data mining and is sold for advertising. This situation raises a number of ethics questions, relative to the protection of your privacy and, as a consequence, your freedom of choice when it comes to managing and controlling your digital life.
Funded by two experienced entrepreneurs and technologists (Michel Gien, CEO and Christian Jacquemot, CTO), Twinlife, the company that develops twinme, aims at challenging the current telecommunications and instant messaging services relationship model, based on your mobile phone number. This number is being used as a universal identification mechanism and yet it is public and processed by mobile applications that access your device address book without authorization from the numbers’ owners.
Your digital life personal information has become a product through data mining and is sold for advertising. This situation raises a number of ethics questions, relative to the protection of your privacy and, as a consequence, your freedom of choice when it comes to managing and controlling your digital life.
