Mobile · 2019-04-12

Jumbo – a privacy assistant that keeps you safe on social networks – New app

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How does one keep his privacy safe on social networks? There are privacy apps, aren’t there?

After years of using social media, many people built up Online portfolios, which include thousands of posts, pictures & videos. It’s great if you’ve been selective when opening up your life to the Online community, but many haven’t been discerning & most of us would rather not have our juvenile tweets or Facebook posts available to say, potential employers, or a new love-interest.

To amplify just how damaging an old post can be, one just needs to review the resurfacing of Cardi B’s Instagram video — Cardi B posted a video 3 years ago, long before becoming famous. In it, she admits to drugging & robbing men to survive her poverty. This admission is not something any of us would be proud of, & she could find herself ‘canceled’ because of it.

Now, most of us wouldn’t have a video like Cardi’s in our ‘closet’, but still, who has time to go through all Online rants & ’rush jobs’, simply to see if there’s anything there that could come back & bite.

With these issues in mind, Pierre Valade has developed an app called ‘Jumbo’, which addresses some of the issues associated with controlling your Online exposure. There are privacy apps but this one claims to be different. This privacy app facilitates both, the deletion of old tweets, the type of people you want your posts shown to on Facebook, the nature of search results kept by Google as well as any voice recordings from your Alexa searches. The smartphone app is touted as a “Privacy Assistant”, which does not keep any records about its users. In fact, the developer reports on his blog that the company does not even know the identity of its users.

However, the app is only as effective as the various social media Sites it offers its services for allows it to be. For instance the Twitter API, which Jumbo uses, only allows users to delete 3200 Tweets at any one time. Additionally, you must keep the app ’open’ during your session, so this process could be very time consuming.

For Facebook, users are able to select between ’weak’, ’medium’ or ’strong’, privacy settings, which controls who can view your profile—anyone, only friends, only you, respectively. The company plans to add settings for Instagram & Tinder in the near future, so users will be able to better control their online privacy across a number of the most popular social network Sites.

Currently, the app is only available for iOS devices, but the company has plans to build for Android as well. Other improvements in the pipeline, include a searchable archive storage system for saving any pictures, posts or videos you’d like to hang on to, but not share. The app has been well received by the general public, with the company posting on their website that they hope to grow their user base to over 100 000 000 active participants in the near future.

To find out more about Jumbo’s innovative concept, visit its Website here.

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