Privacy gives you the freedom to live your life in a way that best suits your personal goals and needs, without having to constantly balance every action between “the private game” (your own needs) and “the public game” (how all kinds of other people, intermediated by all kinds of mechanisms including social media cascades, commercial incentives, politics, institutions, etc, will perceive and respond to your behavior)

Without privacy, everything becomes a constant battle of “what will other people (and bots) think of what I’m doing” - powerful people, companies, and peers, people today and in the future. With privacy, we can preserve a balance.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    4·
    3 days ago

    With general respect to what is written, I don’t like the “it’s encrypted so it’s a non-issue” approach. Sure, data has to be exchanged for many operations - including crypto transactions - but the best model of privacy is when the unnecessary data does not get sent anywhere in the first place.

    Encryption can and eventually will be broken, it can also be implemented wrongly, the devices themselves can be hacked or taken by somebody etc.

    Not sending the data always beats sending the encrypted one as far as privacy is concerned.

    • subatomic4771@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yes! His thoughts are very organized and easy to understand. He really gets his points across and helps people understand the need for privacy especially in current time where our information can be scrapped without us noticing. It’s just his personal blog post but he structured it better than many people’s speeches.

      • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
        1·
        3 days ago

        I started some time ago by reading his Ethereum emissions. I have a relevant qualification but it was handed down last century.

        Yeah. I need a refresher. 😳

        That’s not to say that the bits which I did understand weren’t elegantly put and digestible.