The Privacy Revolution in Action
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I fear the worst is yet to come, and people’s neglect of these issues (for whatever reason) is going to be an irreversible crime against future generations (like climate change). How dare we consent to these or accept these or let these be?
The method they are using is take advantage of the size and complexity of our society -- if they make subtle changes in small silos within our society, we will fail to notice as very few people watch the world at such a macro-level.
> people's neglect of these issues
SJ Res 34 was a prime example -- most major social mediums attempted to censor it among other things from the general society. Now, ISPs are allowed to harvest and sell your data to the highest bidder. Terrible.
How can we fix this?
1. Vote for the right people.
2. Write them letters (not emails) telling them how much they suck if they don't do things for the benefit of people.
3. Stop using things like youtube etc. This gives WAY TOO MUCH narrative power to the overlords running those sites (and their overlords who control them -- do you seriously think the Alex Jones thing was a bunch of unique, coincidental decisions to ban Alex Jones independent of what any other site will do given that they all cut him collectively, at the same time? I'm not in any way saying his rhetoric is good or not -- but he was censored, and his free speech was blocked).
4. Understand that the constitution was a draft of laws from a long time ago and our overall makeup/structure of society has changed -- we really need to make new laws to keep society safe, secure and prosperous.
> 1. Vote for the right people.
> 2. Write them letters (not emails) telling them how much they suck if they don't do things for the benefit of people.
I believe a prerequisite for these is more awareness among the people who vote. The ones in power don’t seem to care. The ones who care about privacy are not numerous enough (depends on the country) to vote the right people into power or get any traction on legislation and enforcement of laws.
I still feel that the Edward Snowden revelations didn’t achieve much at all in terms of real and long lasting change (perhaps my expectations are too high).
At the same time, I don’t mean to imply that we’re not seeing more awareness and concern from the masses. We need this to be accelerated and for the masses to be energized to take action. Lots of work to do still!
> The constitution repealed restrictions on voting and added universal direct suffrage and the right to work to rights guaranteed by the previous constitution. In addition, the constitution recognized collective social and economic rights including the rights to work, rest and leisure, health protection, care in old age and sickness, housing, education and cultural benefits.
Let me share a harsh reality: Nobody has to do anything wrong other than the act of collecting and storing the data itself - someone else can infiltrate, hack and leak the data - look at equifax.
The privacy revolution is very well under way.
The other day I was reading this post from APNIC and realized that even they are data mining[1], and nobody noticed because they just used different vocabulary.
[1] https://blog.apnic.net/2018/05/21/what-drives-ipv6-deploymen...
Google is neither the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy'. They aren't there to look out for your best interests and we'd all be much better if we stop ascribing human qualities to gigantic corporations.
No other company tracks your online behaviour at such industrial scale as Google - and gets so little scrutiny for it.
For most of the tech community, Google's level of tracking is perfectly fine because Google has never had a data breach (that we know of). That somehow makes everything fine.
When it comes to matters of privacy, there's a lot of hypocrisy from the tech community.
It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.
One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy".
Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?
"Mass psycological persuasion" -- isn't that just politics, though? I am wondering if the privacy revolution isn't just a cheapening of a service (effective one-to-many communication) that only governments and churches could afford in the past?
I think the real scary stuff hasn't happened yet, thankfully. When identity becomes enough of a _fuzzy_ notion for most people, borders will need to be redrawn, or eliminated completely. Then there will be a big war.
This would seem to me to be the next logical step, given what humans have now in information collection and what can be done with current tools...
One reason for me to believe this, is that it's already getting somewhat creepy, even for the general public. When the new invigilation systems at china get demonized in public media, people will start to care about privacy a lot more. Which will open a lot of market space for companies focusing on privacy. Apple is one company I have in mind here. But, especially with articles about homomorphic encryption coming up more regularly and a lot of research on how to train ML systems with anonymization on end user devices (a blog post about Siri and differential privacy comes to mind) going on, I think companies will start to cater more to those needs of society. End-to-end encryption is already a standard feature in new messenger applications.
Another good sign, at least in Europe, is GDPR.
People just don't care.
It's a very very tiny minority who actually do, and the big companies and Governments are quite happy to ignore that problem until it goes away, as the vast majority pf people are steam-rolling any chance of privacy mattering in the future by accepting all this.
My opinion's that they will, after the situation in China will have been demonized in public media / books.
China is indeed the canary in the coal mine. Lack of privacy there is explicit and almost universally accepted.
Will this become the new normal? Nobody knows, but I believe the answer is - yes it will. In the medium term, the world will come to follow, rather than reject China's approach.
To mitigate such an eventuality, we must study and take guidance from privacy outliers in China.