• Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”.
  • In response, people are “waking up” to privacy, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of secure messaging service Signal.
  • Here, she explores the drivers behind this shift and how it could impact the digital landscape.
  • einkorn@feddit.org
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    7 days ago

    OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

    To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

    However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      …and for that you get down voted.

      I think you expressed that well. If you can’t own your thoughts, you can’t own anything.