Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

Yes, you do have something to hide

https://web.archive.org/web/20140525004902if_/http://safeandsavvy.f-secure.com/2013/11/27/yes-you-do-have-something-to-hide/

"Getting people to value privacy is like trying to get somebody raised on Burger King to value their heath. They won't know how important it is until they have that first stroke."

Possibly the best thing to come out of #lounge:privacytools.io

On the off chance that anyone lives in Gibraltar, please purchase the google.gi domain.

The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

We overshare information; information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties and by governments. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.

https://philosophy247.org/podcasts/the-future-of-privacy/

Happy new year everyone!

The death of privacy

https://www.newstatesman.com/2020/02/slouching-towards-dystopia-rise-surveillance-capitalism-and-death-privacy

Controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir lands £23m NHS data deal

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversial-tech-firm-palantir-23m-nhs-data-deal/?utm_source=tw

FFS

PODCAST: Why Should We Care About Privacy?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/crazygenius-season-three-privacy-internet/589078/

Privacy versus convenience

https://theconversation.com/why-you-might-want-to-think-twice-about-surrendering-online-privacy-for-the-sake-of-convenience-71021

Privacy is a collective concern

https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/privacy/2019/10/privacy-collective-concern

Of course someone else posts it onto reddit and gets 2k upvotes and a platinum award.

https://teddit.net/r/privacy/comments/kdneep/privacy_matters_even_if_you_have_nothing_to_hide/

The old article had a lot of views (around 12k), though this updated version has over 41k. That's nuts.

also put it onto HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416123

My updated article on why privacy matters:

https://write.privacytools.io/freddy/why-privacy-matters-even-if-you-have-nothing-to-hide