Say No to Surveillance
Parler’s Fight Against Invasive Practices
In an era where the erosion of privacy is increasingly a core feature of our surveillance landscape and critical consumer platforms such as Facebook and TikTok are being accused of invasive, unacceptable data stabling practices, take a stand with Parler and actively resist questionable and intrusive practices and empower users with secure, autonomous control that respects and protects your personal information.
Users have grown increasingly wary of big data practices: anyone who use Facebook or TikTok knows these companies collect vast amounts of information regarding their users in order to serve targeted ads, personalize content and share their data with third parties. Overall, there are real concerns that these practices hugely encroach on the privacy of users. These concerns have also played a role in users voting with their feet and moving to competing data-protection platforms.
Parler is a platform that draws a clear line between the interests of users and its corporate identity, speaking up for the primacy of user privacy where Big Tech claims to promote only the primacy of the user experience. Users’ private data is collected and captured by the likes of Facebook and Google’s illusory universe. In contrast, Parler claims its corporate commitment to safeguarding the privacy of its users through the use of state-of-the-art encryption technologies that refuse to capitulate to surveillance capitalists. Parler strives to disappear from users’ lives as much as possible by collecting only what is absolutely necessary and nothing more.
Finally, transparency becomes part of Parler’s anti-surveillance ethos. The major platforms tend to present a misleading view of their data practices with turgid legal-sounding privacy policies, but Parler keeps users informed of their data habits in a straightforward manner. This transparency helps to build trust with users, but most importantly it helps users have greater control over their own usage.
As the debate over privacy rages in the digital space, the users who experience a sense of violation and identity theft through invasive digital practices find it hard to resist Parler’s ‘you own your own data’ approach. Another example is users opting out of the surveillance model of other platforms, focusing on non-threatening and secure use of social media on their private spaces and promoting privacy options in social media. In the case of Parler, the users are able to find comfort and a safe space where the private is protected – protected because the option parallels their values of privacy – and secured from the invasion of digital practices of surveillance.
