SoylentNews

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.

---

Original Submission

• Re:Mixed bag to me... (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:44AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19 2017, @10:44AM (#611764)

  I guess a lot of this comes to don't make waves, don't stand out, as making yourself a center of attention is apt to draw some unwanted attention. Just lay low and do a good job, don't push the law, and you look like you will come out ahead.

  Yeah, that's typically the behaviour you show to survive under a repressive regime. The difference is that now the repressive regime consists of the entire public.

  Parent

  Starting Score:	0		points
  Moderation		+2
  Insightful=2, Total=2
  Extra 'Insightful' Modifier		0
  Total Score:		2