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A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 19 2017, @04:03AM   
from the digital-divide dept.

canopic jug writes:

Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original Pirate Party, now living in Germany, has published four parts so far of series on analog equivalent privacy rights. He plans to have 21 parts in all. The series starts out early on with the point that there is no reason for the offline liberties of our parents to not be carried over into the same online liberties for our children and examines this point from different directions. So far he has posted in detail on the following topics over at Private Internet Access' blog:

• Our children should have the same rights as our parents
• The analog, anonymous letter
• Posting an Anonymous Public Message
• Our children have lost Privacy of Location

Rick will post more over the next few weeks. The current batch of adults and teenagers are likely the last generation to have any choice in the matter. Apathy and ignorance abound and deciding not to decide is still, sadly, a choice.

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• Re:I've often wondered... (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:35AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:35AM (#611761)

  Sifting through microfiche was more common than you think. I had to do it often in college fro two different fields of research.

  Exactly: You did it for research. You probably would not have done it in order to check on your new neighbour, unless you already had some very concrete suspicion.

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