{"id":14706,"date":"2019-04-09T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/new-privacy-assistant-jumbo-fixes-your-facebook-twitter-settings.html"},"modified":"2019-04-09T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T16:33:53","slug":"new-privacy-assistant-jumbo-fixes-your-facebook-twitter-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/new-privacy-assistant-jumbo-fixes-your-facebook-twitter-settings.html","title":{"rendered":"New privacy assistant Jumbo fixes your Facebook & Twitter settings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumbo could be a nightmare for the tech giants, but a savior for the victims of their shady privacy practices.<\/p>\n

Jumbo<\/a> saves you hours as well as embarrassment by automatically adjusting 30 Facebook privacy settings to give you more protection, and by deleting your old tweets after saving them to your phone. It can even erase your Google Search and Amazon Alexa history, with clean up features for Instagram and Tinder in the works.<\/p>\n

The startup emerges from stealth today<\/a> to launch its Jumbo privacy assistant app on iPhone<\/a> (Android coming soon). What could take a ton of time and research to do manually can be properly handled by Jumbo with a few taps.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The question is whether tech\u2019s biggest companies will allow Jumbo to operate, or squash its access. Facebook, Twitter, and the rest really should have built features like Jumbo\u2019s themselves or made them easier to use, since they could boost people confidence and perception that might increase usage of their apps. But since their business models often rely on gathering and exploiting as much of your data as possible, and squeezing engagement from more widely visible content, the giants are incentivized to find excuses to block Jumbo.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrivacy is something that people want, but at the same time it just takes too much time for you and me to act on it\u201d explains Jumbo founder Pierre Valade, who formerly built beloved high-design calendar app Sunrise that he sold to Microsoft in 2015. \u201c<\/span>So you\u2019re left with two options: you can leave Facebook, or do nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jumbo makes it easy enough for even the lazy to protect themselves. \u201cI\u2019ve used Jumbo to clean my full Twitter, <\/a> and my personal feeling is: I feel lighter. On Facebook, Jumbo changed my privacy settings, and I feel safer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Valade\u2019s Sunrise pedigree and plan to follow Dropbox\u2019s bottom-up freemium strategy by launching premium subscription and enterprise features has already attracted investors to Jumbo. It\u2019s raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Thrive Capital\u2019s Josh Miller and Nextview Ventures\u2019 Rob Go, who \u201cboth believe that privacy is fundamental human right\u201d Valade notes. Valade\u2019s six-person team in New York will use the money to develop new features and try to start a privacy moment.<\/p>\n

How Jumbo Works<\/h2>\n

First let\u2019s look at Jumbo\u2019s Facebook <\/a> settings fixes. The app asks that you punch in your username and password through a mini-browser open to Facebook instead of using the traditional Facebook Connect feature. That immediately might get Jumbo blocked, and we\u2019ve asked Facebook if it will be allowed. Then Jumbo can adjust your privacy settings to Weak, Medium, or Strong controls, though it never makes any privacy settings looser if you\u2019ve already tightened them.<\/p>\n

Valade details that since there are no APIs for changing Facebook settings, Jumbo will \u201cact as \u2018you\u2019 on Facebook\u2019s website and tap on the buttons, as a script, to make the changes you asked Jumbo to do for you.\u201d He says he hopes Facebook makes an API for this, though it\u2019s more likely to see his script as against policies.<\/p>\n

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For example, Jumbo can change who can look you up using your phone number to Strong \u2013 Friends only, Medium \u2013 Friends of friends, or Weak \u2013 Jumbo doesn\u2019t change the setting. Sometimes it takes a stronger stance. For the ability to show you ads based on contact info that advertisers have uploaded, both the Strong and Medium settings hide all ads of this type, while Weak keeps the setting as is.<\/p>\n

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The full list of what Jumbo can adjust includes Who can see your future posts?, Who can see the people, Pages and lists you follow?, Who can see your friends list?, Who can see your sexual preference?, Do you want Facebook to be able to recognize you in photos and videos?, Who can post on your timeline?, and Review tags people add to your posts the tags appear on Facebook? The full list<\/a> can be found here.<\/p>\n

For Twitter, you can choose if you want to remove all tweets ever, or that are older than a day, week, month (recommended), or three months. Jumbo never sees the data, as everything is processed locally on your phone. Before deleting the tweets, it archives them to a Memories tab of its app. Unfortunately there\u2019s currently no way to export the tweets from there, but Jumbo is building Dropbox and iCloud connectivity soon which will work retroactively to download your tweets. Twitter\u2019s API limits mean it can only erase 3200 tweets of yours every few days, so prolific tweeters may require several rounds.<\/p>\n

Its other integrations are more straightforward. On Google, it deletes your search history. For Alexa, it deletes the voice recordings stored by Amazon. Next it wants to build a way to clean out your old Instagram photos and videos, and your old Tinder matches and chat threads.<\/p>\n

While there are other apps that can clean you tweets, nothing else is designed to be a full-fledged privacy assistant. Perhaps it\u2019s a bit of idealism to think these tech giants will permit Jumbo to run as intended. Valade says he hopes if there\u2019s enough user support, the privacy backlash would be too big if the tech giants blocked Jumbo. \u201cIf the social network blocks us, we will disable the integration in Jumbo until we can find a solution to make them work again.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even if it does get nixed by the platforms, Jumbo will have started a crucial conversation about how privacy should be handled offline. We\u2019ve left control over privacy defaults to companies that earn money when we\u2019re less protected. Now it\u2019s time for that control to shift to the hands of the user.<\/p>\n

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