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Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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Perhaps it's a generational thing because I don't see a problem with what happened, at all.

I’m a millennial and I don’t understand how this is not a problem. People need boundaries and ownership in order to thrive. Yes some things should be shared but everything is a balance. You cannot just have anyone walking into your house. Similarly, taking photos of you and your family in a private space ) (albeit public-facing) is a socially indecent and disrespectful move. While not legally enforceable, I can under…

Perhaps it's a jurisdictional thing, then? Where I live, if it's in public, it's fair game. The only exception is when it's in public but there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. For example, even though a fenced backyard is outside, someone reaching a camera above the fence to record is an invasion of privacy. Recording someone in their unfenced front yard from the street is not an invasion of privacy, unless the recording was meant to record what's inside the house through the windows.

Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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No, it doesn't mean privacy is a luxury. It means privacy is less important than those things.

Caring about privacy is the luxury. Not privacy itself, neither does it imply that privacy is less important. Just that people who have to care about more urgent dangers won't always have to capacity to take in account something like privacy issues. But these people still deserve of privacy, and we should try to build solution that embrace both privacy AND helping them with their unemployment, poverty, or other more…

Yes, people deserve privacy and education and many other things. The point is that food security and shelter are even more important by a very large margin.

Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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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…

Why would you be friendly towards somebody who has just taken unwanted photos of you without your permission?

It's public space. Permission is not needed.

Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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The author goes too far when they suggest there should be laws (and one imagines punishments for those who break them) that prevent something being shared in one space from being shared elsewhere. For example, if I share something with my family, there should be a law that prevents a family member from making what I said public. Not only would this be a nightmare to police but it would give rise to some anti-social o…

I see a solution with individual auditing. I want to see my social graph across different proprietary data stores and either charge a dime for use of my data, or reclaim a node. Auth is one issue, building that graph is another, and hiding data from regulators is the last I can think of right now. Regardless, the sentiment remains. When I write this comment, it's work. I made some content for y'all. But if a scraper…

You are correct that most of us have totally lost control. This company gives me hope: https://permission.io

Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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The problem with privacy as a concept is that it's ultimately just a metaphor. Privacy can exist in the real world, where our perception is limited by physical distance and obstacles. In the digital world, however, information has different barriers. We like to recreate the mechanics of physical information rules, like separating chats into "rooms", where you be in a room and see the information being exposed there,…

I agree these are the correct questions to ask. This company has very promising white papers that answer many of them: https://permission.io

Re: Privacy is the most important concept of our time

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Why would you be friendly towards somebody who has just taken unwanted photos of you without your permission?

It's public space. Permission is not needed.

His lawn is a public space?

Would your reaction be different if they were taking pictures of his pets through his window?

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