Your Personal Data Is Being Stolen

Whatever you do in the internet, you are being monitored. Facebook and Google put trackers in your browser to monitor what you are doing. These trackers tell them what you are looking for, what you are interested in, what you do and a few other things. They keep your data –without your permission – and the next time you visit these sites you might notice that they now display the items you were searching for just a few minutes ago. This is called target marketing. They make money every time you click those ads regardless if you buy or not.

Facebook alone, as of 2012, puts more than 200 trackers in your browser during a single session. And Google doesn’t deny putting trackers in your browser. That’s why they have launched Google Chrome – to better monitor your browsing habits.
And these two are only private companies. How about government sectors like NSA, CIA, and FBI watching and monitoring your moves, every phone call, text message, email, surfing habits, etc?

What if an employee went rogue and sold your data to the black market? No one knows what these criminals can or will do to our data.

The Fight for Our Privacy

People who are aware of what’s going on are trying to fight back – for decades now. We have VPNs, IP changers, Tor browser, Brave browser, Proton email, and Bitcoin, just to name a few. And the list will just keep getting longer.

One of the projects that aim to fight for our privacy is Essentia. Its project leader is Matteo Gianpietro Zago https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteozago/ who is the author of the Facebook Bible and the Twitter Marketing Guide, both best-selling books on Amazon.

Essentia is a trustless modular framework allowing users to operate with their digital decentralized identities and data by creating their operating system with on-chain capabilities that can be accessible from all the devices in the world.
It empowers users with the full control and ownership of their data, IDs, information, privacy and assets, while being applicable in every device in the world, dApp, blockchain and third party service that a user wish to control in a decentralized manner. The benefits are as follow:

*Being trustless means Essentia doesn’t store user’s data. It will be stored on the decentralized system where the user can access it anytime, anywhere with just his SEED.

*Essentia is decentralized via the blockchain which means it is almost DDoS-resistant and a 99.99999% uptime.
The data, once on the blockchain, cannot be censored, erased or modified. It becomes persistent and redundant once stored in the decentralized cloud where only the owner can access and control it.

*The Essentia code, components and modules are open-source. Everyone is allowed to check and review the code, to adapt it for their personal purposes, to improve it or to do whatever they like with it.

*Essentia is built on the minimal set of cryptographic operations of sign/verify/encrypt/decrypt that are executed with and by the seed and its derived extended keys.

*Essentia is also built on the latest bleeding-edge technologies which makes it a few steps ahead of others for the next decade at least.

Features and Benefits of Essentia

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*The user can access, from a single place, the multitude of integrated and connected decentralized dApps, services, resources, and so on, by having everything at their fingertips.

*A CLI and UI experience are finally available to access the decentralized ecosystems from a single decentralized framework that works like an operating system.

*Multiple IDs and their Sub-IDs, being them anonymous, pseudo anonymous or linked to real-world data, can be created, used and managed from a single place where users can selectively use them, even concurrently, in order to connect and interact with the services/dApps integrated on the Framework.

*The user can login to services - use and configure them - without revealing their private details and data, or they can use their favorite exchanges, payment services and wallets without concern.

*The user can connect to the Internet, even at boot, via decentralized or custom VPN services or via the TOR network.

*The user can register/access their accounts instantly and seamlessly on every integrated trust-less service. The external applications can enable Sub-IDs to be KYC/AML compliant by binding an additional level of data/metadata to a Sub-ID with the ESS-META module or by supplementing ESS-REP the reputation model, beyond the other possible implementations.

*The user can organize and manage IDs or sets of IDs that are devoted to, and setup for, specific use-cases. For example, users can setup an ID to connect to his bank accounts, one for web shops, one for games, and so on, by having each ID related to the additional data/metadata that they decide to share with the third-party services/resources.

*A good can be rented or used without revealing data if no problems occur with the use of it or with its payment.

*Insurance and/or other external, third-party smart contracts can finally manage "decentralized-users".

*The user can always utilize a trusted, secure, powerful, custom, ready-to-use and user-friendly framework.

*The user can manage "his things" through his ESS-ID from anywhere, securely. For example, the user can access home controls, assign company's assets (e.g. cars), move funds, do trading, Dapping, access/use decentralized and third-party services and deploy their setups.

*The user can create/share authorizations on IDs and Sub-IDs, create groups, set/enforce context-dependant rules or user/group-dependant rules.

*Constellations of machines, or IoT devices, of any complexity level can be automatically deployed, managed, setup, and orchestrated through ESS-IDs, the ESS-Components and the ESS-Modules.

*Absolute or Relative positions on the Earth can be retrieved by using the Essentia decentralized Global Position System (dGPS). A constellation of Nodes with a Sense GPS antenna that are controlled during their operativity by smart contracts, create an on/cross-chain network that works exactly like a decentralized position system.

*The user can be actively/passively involved with the network. They can participate or contribute to the Essentia Network and to other decentralized systems by; mining, running nodes, offering local or virtualized resources for the network, computational power, decentralized storage, and so on.

*The user is able to load and run a full Ethereum node, other blockchains nodes, or decentralized VPN nodes, even concurrently, by just activating the corresponding modules on the Essentia Framework.

*Existing services and implementations, even hardware examples, can be easily integrated into the framework and be interconnected with decentralized and cross-chain resources. ESS-Eggs can provide a perfect solution for this connectivity.

*The user can book a flight without giving their personal data to the operator/website by being the assignee of just an anonymous ticket. The user data, forwarded (encrypted) to them by the aero company, can be only decrypted and read by the relevant authorities. The user’s data can eventually be accessed by the authorities only in presence of an alert, depending on the local jurisdiction. User privacy is fully respected.

*The user orders a shipment and their data is “gradually” revealed to the intermediate actors during the freight trip. For example, the shop knows (is allowed to decrypt) just the user’s country, the central postal-service knows also the city, the local post the street, and the postman knows the door-number and the initials of the recipient’s name.

*Decentralized resources can be rented, paid for and accessed in a decentralized way!

*A company can remotely manage the access and the use of its assets, such as cars, by employees. The manager can enforce limits and rules based on context or he can assign the assets while controlling their authorizations, enabled-times, and so on.

*With an ESS-Keyware, or ESS-ID enabled-system, the user can use ATMs/POSs without the need of a card, without leaving data to the intermediaries along the way and without needing accounts on them.

*The user, with an ESS-Keyware or dealing with an ESS-ID enabled system, beyond being able to manage doors and car locks, they can also access, use or pay for third-party services and resources such as; car-sharing, energy-sharing, Wi-Fi sharing or any service enabled/integrated for such use-cases.

*Services, like Airbnb, can integrate the Essentia Platform, or just some parts of it, and they can allow ESS-ID users to directly access/use their services.

*The preferences, options or configurations on third-party services, such as logins and accounts, are accessible by the user through the ESS-ID.

*The user can access and use the integrated dApps Centre module, where they can browse dApps or interact with them along with other decentralized resources or services.

*Users can have at hand their digital assets and they can securely dispose of them for trading or for other tasks including using them on the integrated DEX or account-less exchange.

*The user is able to sign, verify, decrypt, encrypt, or timestamp, a document or any other data and he is able to manage its authorizations such as who can access/read/use them and when.

*And a lot more!

How to Acquire Essentia Tokens

Essentia will launch its their Initial Coin Offering. The ETH:ESS ratio is currently at 1 ETH is to 15000 ESS based on the current exchange rates and is subject to fluctuation.

There is no definite date yet as the development team is still fixing it so be ready with your funds for this project is going to succeed! I read the whitepaper and everything’s so great.

If you want free Essentia tokens, there is also an ongoing bounty program of which the link is given below that you can join.

My Bitcointalk Profile Link:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1289375

My Essentia Referral Link:
https://profile.essentia.one/ref?id=yLvRz0xC

Announcement Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2876656

Bounty Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2881283.0

Essentia Telegram:
https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@essentia_one

Whitepaper:
https://essentia.one/whitepaper.pdf

Website:
https://essentia.one/

Resources:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-history-search-tracking-data-how-to-delete

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-how-facebook-is-tracking-your-internet-activity-2012-9

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-nsa/ex-u-s-nsa-contractor-to-plead-guilty-to-massive-theft-of-secret-data-idUSKBN1ET05R

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elite-hackers-stealing-nsa-secrets-is-childs-play