INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Jumbo could be a nightmare for the tech giants, but a savior for the victims of their shady privacy practices.Jumbo 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.The startup
emerges from stealth today to launch its Jumbo privacy assistant app on iPhone (Android coming soon)
biggest companies will allow Jumbo to operate, or squash its access
But since their business models often rely on gathering and exploiting as much of your data as possible, and squeezing engagement from more
calendar app Sunrise that he sold to Microsoft in 2015
launching premium subscription and enterprise features has already attracted investors to Jumbo
Miller sold his link-sharing app Branch to Facebook in 2014, so his investment shows those with inside knowledge see a need for Jumbo
The app asks that you punch in your username and password through a mini-browser open to Facebook instead of using the traditional Facebook
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.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 can be found here.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
will work retroactively to download your tweets
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.Across the
board, Jumbo is designed to never see any of your data
Instead, everything is processed locally on your phone
nothing else is designed to be a full-fledged privacy assistant
it does get nixed by the platforms, Jumbo will have started a crucial conversation about how privacy should be handled offline
