Ofcourse it is. Privacy is taken serious by people around the world. But you know it, companies like Google, Facebook will eventually get your whole data in some way.
Privacy is the most important concept of our time
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> However relying on encryption feels a little repugnant as it relies on transferring trust to a mathematical minority that truly understand it. Physical locks also rely on a minority that truly understand them. A bit less true now that you can find lockpicking tutorials all over the place, but most people just trust their locksmith, who, in turn, trust lock manufacturers. > And no encryption has ever gone unbroken w…
> Physical locks also rely on a minority that truly understand them. A bit less true now that you can find lockpicking tutorials all over the place, but most people just trust their locksmith, who, in turn, trust lock manufacturers. physical locks are not nearly as essential to physical security as encryption is to digital security, although they are definitely important. physical locks are only useful because most p…
Yeah - essentially without encryption you don’t have the conceptual model of identity. You couldn’t be a unique soul in an avatar without encryption as a fundamental implementation.
Maybe that’s what 2nd law of thermodynamics is related to in Wolfram’s view.
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It saddens me to read this sentiment. I agree there is a huge uphill battle to fight here to change the current situation, but there are a) plenty of people who value their privacy and are willing to make changes to the products and technologies they use in order to preserve their rights, and b) developers creating technology, tools and products that will protect your online privacy.
I’m sad to hold it. But the reality is that today you can opt-out and not participate and that won’t impede companies from violating your privacy. It’s enough that your friends shared their contact books or tagged you in their photos. Beyond that just thing what will stop this? It will either take leadership from Washington DC or a global uprising. Do you think our politicians will fight for our privacy? The second t…
I hear you. Here in the UK we have an unelected consultant to the Prime Minister who is pushing for a loosening of data privacy laws. The right to privacy is politicised to suit the agendas of politicians and big tech alike.
Long term, I do hope laws and regulation will catch up. I know some incredible people in the space and their work and commitment is inspiring. It's unsatisfying though to think that the effects will only be reactive and recourse provided after years of ongoing privacy invasion at mass scale. To me, that's where technology comes in and we should advocate and use products and solutions that respect our privacy (e.g. Qwant).
For what it's worth, I'm one of the developers of Peergos - https://peergos.org - a secure storage solution that puts user privacy and control of data first. We're currently in alpha and looking for users to test it out and give feedback. If it interests you at all, I would really appreciate your views on the product and what we're trying to create.
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Privacy was a major concern in former socialist countries like East Germany were the Stasi and hundreds-of-thousands of "Unofficial Collaborators" spied on millions of citizens. People were very alert in their everyday lives about who they could talk to about what topics (because talking about the wrong things to the wrong people could easily cost you your carreer or land you in jail). I would hardly call life in the…
Sure, but it was the dictatorship locking people up for wrongthink that was the problem, not the lack of privacy. I don't think many East Germans would take the GDR back in return for guarantees that views would stay private so long as they were expressed in private...
The dictatorship was enabled by violation of people's privacy, that's why it managed to survived so long.
Privacy isn't an optional feature you can "chose" to have or even have much control over, it is a basic right that is either violated or honored by those in power.
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Or you can approach them in a friendly manner and talk about your Chickens, why are they so fascinated and make a new friend. My advice is to try to understand that your judgement is probably not aligned to malice of the intruder, instead verify with friendliness and if they’re still “creepy”, by all means proceed with your action plan. Love each other and our neighbors. Dude probably just wanted to send it to his gi…
You're missing the point. I'm not Oscar the Grouch.
agreed - if this was once a year or something, maybe, but this is slowly becoming a new "right", the right to record anything at anytime - which is madness
edit: and it is the new norm - no escaping it
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#216This is a much more compelling piece and it is what brought me here this AM because it was an email in my inbox and if you haven't seen it, I think it gives good context for this piece (which is why I am sharing it, not to dis this piece): Social Cooling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363 From this article: Privacy is about boundaries. It is not about hiding something from someone but allowing to create a…
I saw an interview with Jerry Seinfeld once and the interviewer asked him something like, "What's your most memorable interaction with a fan?" He described a moment when he was in a tiny midwest town, walking down the sidewalk, and a fella passed him and said, "Hi Jerry." very casually and kept walking. He said that was the greatest thing ever. - - - - You're right that "something" is threatened. I once tried to offe…
"Burn the heretic" is a good nutshell summary of it.
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Sure, but it was the dictatorship locking people up for wrongthink that was the problem, not the lack of privacy. I don't think many East Germans would take the GDR back in return for guarantees that views would stay private so long as they were expressed in private...
The dictatorship was enabled by violation of people's privacy, that's why it managed to survived so long. Privacy isn't an optional feature you can "chose" to have or even have much control over, it is a basic right that is either violated or honored by those in power.
What enabled the dictatorship was punishing people for perceived disloyalty and shooting people who tried to leave. Privacy was, at best, a weak defence against that, and arguably much of the Stasi's raison d'etre was to convince citizens their concerns about the government ought to stay private.
Better a Germany where people feel safe to share far more on social media than the Stasi could ever have collected, because they don't expect to suffer consequences from doing so.
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#219Privacy and the concept of property blur in the digital. This is interesting when taking the philosophy of natural laws and what a nation like USA is built upon (ideas of natural laws including property, defending life, and so on) Encryption is the only way to have property in the digital universe, however the mechanics of property and cost are also entirely different. Once it exists it’s costless to reproduce in sai…
Check out the Zcash team building private internet money based on zk-SKNARKs https://z.cash/the-basics/
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#220I recommend looking into Privacy as Contextual Integrity. Privacy is not about control. It's about appropriateness of information flows, not about private and public spaces. If you're interested please read Nissenbaum's book on Privacy in Context. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=8862 There is also an active community you can follow: https://twitter.com/privaci_way
Nissenbaum does a really good job at pinning a potential solution to the privacy problem. This is a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVRbvxVGDoc