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Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by wakest »

sverhagen wrote: post #19
wakest wrote: post #14

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I don't accept this view from bigger tech companies either and really have no interest in using Microsoft, Apple, Google or any of the other big tech companies which I trust less and less every passing day with their adherent behavior. I will indeed file an issue and believe that its worth discussing with them. My main point was not even their narrow view of gender being a binary but that it deserved to be included a…

I'm also with you "politically", but not everyone is at the same pace "politically". Maybe you could be persuaded to raise the issue with them, and see how they take it, instead of "leaving them behind"?

I will definitely open an issue.

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by kevingrahl »

fredsted wrote: post #18
kevingrahl wrote: post #10

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You should be aware that FullContact is known to sell customers data. I didn’t know that either and have tried the iOS App once but did not upload anything to them, I just wanted to see what the App could do/how it feels like. Then I read their Privacy Police and ToS and did some searching. I very quickly decided that this is not a service I’d want to use. So I send them a GDPR request demanding the deletion of my ac…

Seems like it would be interesting to report them for a violation of GDPR. They’re a good example of a company that should be zealously compliant.

Oh for sure, there’s no way I wouldn’t report them for all the hurdles they threw at me trying to not accept my GDPR request. I only received the account deletion confirmation email on Friday though so I still have to write that all up and I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. But I’ll figure that out.

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by zmix »

kevingrahl wrote: post #22
fredsted wrote: post #18

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Seems like it would be interesting to report them for a violation of GDPR. They’re a good example of a company that should be zealously compliant.

Oh for sure, there’s no way I wouldn’t report them for all the hurdles they threw at me trying to not accept my GDPR request. I only received the account deletion confirmation email on Friday though so I still have to write that all up and I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. But I’ll figure that out.

> I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to.

Start here? ;-)

>> mentioning some personal contacts I have to some federal law enforcement officer who works privacy cases

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by avip »

thunfisch wrote: post #13
koevet wrote: post #9

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Why not use Docker? https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/master/docs/installa...

If you can only install an app without hassle with Docker, it's a really bad sign. I'm not against Docker, I run a whole cluster of Docker hosts as my job, but touting it as a solution to a hard install for a _php app_ is crazy. Besides: You're cutting a whole lot of people off because this is apparently not installable on regular shared hosting, etc. Running a Container is even less of an option for these people. An…

People who want to "just try" something, don't care about shared hosting. They care about having a one-liner that just works. And if you gonna provide such one-liner, it'd better be with docker.

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by kevingrahl »

zmix wrote: post #23
kevingrahl wrote: post #22

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Oh for sure, there’s no way I wouldn’t report them for all the hurdles they threw at me trying to not accept my GDPR request. I only received the account deletion confirmation email on Friday though so I still have to write that all up and I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. But I’ll figure that out.

> I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. Start here? ;-) >> mentioning some personal contacts I have to some federal law enforcement officer who works privacy cases

I could do that but I thought there’d be someone who I’m supposed to send GDPR complaint to. I haven’t looked into this at all yet I just remember there was some mention of some supervisory agency or something like that in the GDPR which I read several months ago.

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by schoen »

kevingrahl wrote: post #25
zmix wrote: post #23

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> I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. Start here? ;-) >> mentioning some personal contacts I have to some federal law enforcement officer who works privacy cases

I could do that but I thought there’d be someone who I’m supposed to send GDPR complaint to. I haven’t looked into this at all yet I just remember there was some mention of some supervisory agency or something like that in the GDPR which I read several months ago.

I believe it's normally enforced by the privacy regulator of each individual EU member country, e.g. the BfDI in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_data_protection_autho...

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by joshwcomeau »

weego wrote: post #20
wakest wrote: post #2

Was excited to see this because there is a serious lack of good contact managers / address book software and signed up to their demo right away but was quite disappointed to see their default options for adding a new contact were: 1. First Name 2. Last Name 3. Gender: Male / Female / I'd rather not say I would not trust the software from a project that thinks the third most important thing about a person is their gen…

How often do you optimise your work for less than 1% of the population?

If it's a trivial thing to change, and that 1% has the highest suicide rate in society? I'd say it's the most important thing they could do at this point.

Also, I am cisgendered, and it's important to me. So it's more than 1% of the population. Or do you believe that you have to be a member of a group to be bothered by things that affect them?

Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family

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Post by Vinnl »

vohk wrote: post #6

Interesting. That fills a niche that's been empty for me since I left Facebook, and I love that it's open source and can be self hosted. The pricing for the hosted version seems a little steep though, especially for something based entirely on manual input. At $5/month that's about half of what I pay for office/onedrive, and more than I pay for 1password. That's a big ask for a service that falls more into the 'neat'…

Huh, I created an account with one of the earlier Show HN posts, and I quite like it. I don't think back then there were pricing strategies yet, though, nor limits on the amount of contacts you could add. I hope he'll either grandfather in existing users - though I guess that since there's at least the option to export you data, being able to self-host is already quite an improvement.
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