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[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:
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights: Our children should have the same rights as our parents
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (2/21): The analog, anonymous letter
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (3/21): Posting an Anonymous Public Message
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (4/21): Our children have lost Privacy of Location
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (5/21): Where did Freedom of Assembly go?
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (6/21): Everything you do, say, or think today will be used against you in the future
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (7/21): Analog Libraries Were Private Searches for Information
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (8/21): Using Third-Party Services Should Not Void Expectation of Privacy
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (9/21): When the government knows what news you read, in what order, and for how long
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (10/21): Analog journalism was protected; digital journalism isn't
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (11/21): Our parents used anonymous cash
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren't recorded
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON'T buy
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (14/21): Our analog parents' dating preferences weren't tracked, recorded, and catalogued
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (15/21): Our digital children's conversations are muted on a per-topic basis
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (16/21): Our children's privacy and Data Retention
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn't read your mail, ever
- Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment
Earlier on SN : A 21-Part Series on Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:28PM (6 children)
What I'm telling you is that I have a right to point my camera and record where and what I want. If you don't want to be in the picture, get out of the way. You have every right to prevent the state from doing so because they exist to serve, and you have the right to prohibit anything recorded from being used against you in any way, but that's as far as it goes. My camera, you don't touch unless it obstructs your path, view, whatever.
Now, if I have a website, I have the right to record whatever any visitor does there. It is up to that visitor to assume everything is being recorded and either stay or go. It's very simple.
This whole issue is a simple matter of buyer beware. Either way, if you want to change the law, then vote for the people that will do it. If you're in the minority, well, I guess life sucks, doesn't it?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 03 2018, @03:56PM (5 children)
While YOU may have such a right, corporations do not.
And you also believe in "might makes right", I suppose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:25PM (4 children)
While YOU may have such a right, corporations do not.
Why? Everybody has the right. It is you that has no right to stop me. The technology is protecting my rights and helps prevent you from interfering. This is how we protect ourselves from rogue authority that gets in our way.
And you also believe in "might makes right", I suppose.
Dude! That's all there is.. You're only fooling yourself if you think the species lives under a different set of rules than everything else. Or didn't your first spanking teach you anything? You can only differentiate yourself by degree, not by character. And every dollar you make and spend is blood money. So, please, save your breath on the philosophical masturbation. We live in a material world. Our rights cannot be protected without might. We actually have to force people to leave us in peace when they won't do it voluntarily. Without an irresistible force, Europe and the rest of the world would still be at war. There can only be one.
Like it or not, might does make right... whether by ballot or by bullets, it makes no difference. In fact it takes bullets to protect and enforce the ballot. Round and round we go...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @01:38AM (3 children)
So, you'll have no objection when the villagers arrive at your house and/or your place of employment with the torches and pitchforks. Because might makes right.
Your attitude is contemptible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:40AM (2 children)
If the villagers have a badge, what should I do? What difference does it make if they do or don't? Might makes right is the law of the universe, and you enable it just like the rest of us.
Your self righteous indignation and hypocrisy are duly noted. Accept and embrace your own evil before calling anybody else out on theirs.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 04 2018, @02:42PM (1 child)
You must be new here. I'm the asocial asshole. Someone, in the early days of Soylent, made a comment about me not being a nice guy. I told that person in clear terms that I'm NOT a "nice guy". Yes, I can be kinda evil, although I'm actually more neutral. And, your attitude is still contemptible. When the commoners corner you and the rest of the aristocracy, and demand that you sign the New Magna Charta, I'll be the asshole who stole all the pens. You can sign in blood, or not at all. Fuck you, you douche.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 04 2018, @08:07PM
The commoners, and you will be in for a surprise. It's not wise to attack a person with nothing to lose and who has his own pen, for stabbing the invaders, no, wait, it's one of those exploding James Bond pens, yeah, that's it.
Oh, and back at ya!