Campaign to Buy Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law
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Re: Campaign to Buy Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law
#2I would add to this list Sen. Rand Paul, who co-sponsored the bill, but skipped the vote.
edit: link to donate to the gofundme campaign to purchase the browser histories https://www.gofundme.com/searchinternethistory
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#3Actual link:
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#4Something I read long ago (and can't find) was that privacy is a relatively recent part of humanity. In the past, we lived in small groups where everyone knew each other very well.
Now we live in big groups, which provide pseudo-nymity.
One of the things I keep coming back to in my head is a way to democratize the information collected about us. Right now, certain "people" (including companies and government organizations) have lots of access to lots of data and the rest of the population has very little access to that information.
Does privacy matter as much if we share observations as humans likely did in the past?
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#5Except the data is cleaned of personal information, correct? The top comments on the reddit thread of this issue are all about how this is impossible.
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#6Something I read long ago (and can't find) was that privacy is a relatively recent part of humanity. In the past, we lived in small groups where everyone knew each other very well. Now we live in big groups, which provide pseudo-nymity. One of the things I keep coming back to in my head is a way to democratize the information collected about us. Right now, certain "people" (including companies and government organiza…
Difference is these memories are no longer forgotten. Embarrassing stories may fall by the wayside back in the day, but think, your grandchildren will be able to look up your cringey college Facebook posts long after you've passed away.
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#7I think that the only way to really drive home the importance of digital privacy rights is to craft a bit of targeted advertising that _only_ your senator or representative sees and that follows them _everywhere_ online.
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#8Except the data is cleaned of personal information, correct? The top comments on the reddit thread of this issue are all about how this is impossible.
Even if personal info is not filtered out, what's to stop the communication companies from deliberately excluding the information of certain legislators? Seems unlikely they would bite the hand that feeds them.
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#9Something I read long ago (and can't find) was that privacy is a relatively recent part of humanity. In the past, we lived in small groups where everyone knew each other very well. Now we live in big groups, which provide pseudo-nymity. One of the things I keep coming back to in my head is a way to democratize the information collected about us. Right now, certain "people" (including companies and government organiza…
Difference is these memories are no longer forgotten. Embarrassing stories may fall by the wayside back in the day, but think, your grandchildren will be able to look up your cringey college Facebook posts long after you've passed away.
You didn't have the kind of authoritarian powers we have with the ability to archive information about people.
We know what the statsi archives did... now there's unprecedented power to repeat that mistake at a larger scale.
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#10I think that the only way to really drive home the importance of digital privacy rights is to craft a bit of targeted advertising that _only_ your senator or representative sees and that follows them _everywhere_ online.
Why only senators? It would be an effective way to teach the public too. "Hi, . I know you live at , and that . If you care about privacy go to eff.org (or some other organization)."
You might also include a message along the lines of "everyone knows this information about you, it's just that we're the only one telling you that we know".