Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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I spent months speaking up against this, and I learned something sad: nobody cares. So now the way I think about it is that apathy leads to its own punishment. It’s depressing.
I feel like the average person is too obsessed with convenience and/or not smart enough to draw certain technologies to their logical conclusions. At least you'll be able to say "yeah I warned you about that 10 years ago".
I suspect that the 'apathy' thing might be more complex than appears on the surface. For example, there might be a certain amount of mental self-protection going on there, even though that probably sounds paradoxical in terms of taking vital action against a future surveillance state.
I understand, but now I am the one protecting my mental health. I won't be a proxy anymore. Instead I'll take out my popcorn and watch the collapse.
Yeah kind of me too. Sick of warning everyone who won't listen.
From the article:
Key findings
- In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
- Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
- Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
- The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
- Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
- Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
- A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.
both democratic and authoritarian contexts
ha, how do we tell them?