Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
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Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
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Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#2I don't bother.
Not worth the effort. I assume everything I do is (potentially) seen by someone, and the typical approaches are only going to make me look more suspicious.
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#3Author does not mention the major reason I care which is that allowing others to know what we are doing, thinking, saying, where we are going.. either individually or collectively anonymously or not, gives them power over us in many ways to predict, manipulate, dispossess.. which leads to the imbalances we have today of the haves and have nots of data.
The people who say big tech already has so much data on them so why care are missing the valence of time. What you did, thought, said.. last year is much less valuable and useful than what you are doing today.
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#4I don't bother. Not worth the effort. I assume everything I do is (potentially) seen by someone, and the typical approaches are only going to make me look more suspicious.
Look suspicious in what way?
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#5I think it's mostly pointless to put more than a basic minimum amount of effort into protecting your own privacy (e.g. sensible social media settings). There are too many surreptitious means of getting your info.
Instead we need to focus our efforts on political action. Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets.
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#6These articles frequently err on the side of assuming that online security is entirely about worrying about random internet strangers taking advantage of you. For many people, the primary concern is an abusive SO, ex or relative, getting fired from their current job et al.
Some articles do address such things but they have something of a tendency to be addressed as a separate issue from "online privacy" rather than one element of the issue and a bigger issue for some individuals than others.
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#7I guess it really depends on what country you live in. In America, history has taught me people with enough money and power can destroy your life with immunity and that you could be one election away from 1984 or Hunger Games.
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#8If you are interested in this subject you may like to check out EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" site, which has tons of guides and useful info: https://ssd.eff.org
Another excellent site is Privacy Tools at https://www.privacytools.io/
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#9I don't bother. Not worth the effort. I assume everything I do is (potentially) seen by someone, and the typical approaches are only going to make me look more suspicious.
What are your other social media handles?
Re: Online privacy: to what extent should you try to go dark?
#10I think it's mostly pointless to put more than a basic minimum amount of effort into protecting your own privacy (e.g. sensible social media settings). There are too many surreptitious means of getting your info. Instead we need to focus our efforts on political action. Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets.
I agree that political action is needed, but I have almost no hope that any substantive legal changes will pass in near future. Big money and power prevent proposals from getting anywhere. It is up to us to protect ourselves and loved ones. It is a fun sport to evade the surveillance state.