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As promised to celebrate #DataPrivacyDay we will be sharing a variety of tools and resources we’ve been producing as part of our efforts to demand effective protection of people and their data.

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ā€œā€¦the mutability of the pastā€

ā€œIt was therefore necessary to rewrite a portion of Big Brother’s speech, in such a way as to predict the thing that had actually happened.ā€

ā€œBut actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.ā€

ā€œā€¦when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.ā€

Some phrases in 1984 are downright scary.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

activism.net/cypherpunk/manife

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Privacy... is an experience which is performed and therefore does not pre-exist in particular designated spaces. Privacy, then, is dependent on context and intimacy; it is negotiated between the people who participate in a communication process.

opendemocracy.net/en/whose-dat

This is as true of privacy as it is of politics, or any other subject. Always try and understand the other side.

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First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult

aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard

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