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posted by chromas on Tuesday April 03 2018, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the forget-me-now dept.

[Pirate Party] Rick Falkvinge has concluded his 21-post series on analog-equivalent privacy rights. Almost everything that was taken for granted by previous generations regarding privacy has been completely eliminated for the young generations coming up. The series of posts discusses how essential civil liberties have suffered catastrophic erosion in the world's transition to online, digital interaction.

It's going to be a long uphill battle to win back the liberties that were slowly won by our ancestors over about six generations, and which have been all but abolished in a decade.

It's not rocket science that our children should have at least the same set of civil liberties in their digital environment, as our parents had in their analog environment. And yet, this is not happening.

Our children are right to demand Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights — the civil liberties our parents not just enjoyed, but took for granted.

Below the fold are all 21 posts from the last few months:


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Earlier on SN : A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:41AM (#661880)

    They have all this data collected, but it is overwhelming for them, they don't have reliable way of using it for their purposes.
    It may be that they didn't even decided on a definition of purpose.
    It may be that they can't define what they want good enough without too much vagueness but without leaving too much "ham" out - perhaps data sets for any damn purpose is not classifiable enough.

    I am certain that people having access to these "instruments of darkness" are brought up to not be content with creating some sort of obvious totalitarian dystopia, and they see that all they can do with what they have now is to actually create one. That probably wouldn't bother some other people who actually think that it is a good idea, when the technology inevitably proliferates. However, in dystopia, none is shielded from its bad sides, and more or less everyone knows from history (or will eventually realize, or find out) that.

    With all the fuss, we still don't see major changes in the world around us.

  • (Score: 2) by quixote on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:35PM

    by quixote (4355) on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:35PM (#661989)

    I agree that it sure wasn't by design that privacy evaporated. Part of it was clever people solving interesting problems, which is actually a good thing. But right after them came the usual mass of vultures hunting money and power who can't be bothered to look ahead to what they destroy to get it.

    So, as Zeynep Tufekci brilliantly puts it "We're building a dystopia to make people click on ads."