Does anyone have any compelling arguments for justifying your efforts at preserving privacy? Note, not why privacy matters, instead why individual privacy is something to work for. Not nothing to hide arguments either.
@freddyym @Coffee why does that matter, some will ask. Because abusers of privacy are often nefarious in other ways, e.g. Amazon, Microsoft, & Google are all involved in the fossil fuel biz. We need boycott tools to fight #climateChange, and privacy is the tool for that job. We can fight climate change by denying our data to Amazon, Google, and MS, thus reducing their profit.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @Coffee while I 100% agree, I'm sure some will say that they aren't Martin Luther King, and that this analogy doesn't apply to them...
@freddyym @Coffee for normies caught up in mass surveillance, the data collection mostly just sits, waiting until someone needs leverage against you. Most will never know the threat is there. Privacy is like guns and condoms- better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. Privacy is also like virginity- once you lose it you can't have it back.
@Coffee @freddyym Another example: gay Canadian man was trying to enter the US. CBP denied him entry after snooping through his phone and finding a msg from another gay man looking to hook up. He did nothing illegal, but was denied entry. (if you're not a citizen, you can be denied entry for any reason). https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201702211050924325-usa-customs-canada-deny-entry/
Related with the covid situation, there's a lot of places asking you to pay with your credit card to get rid of the "dirty" cash, creating an even more complete profile of each and everyone of us. @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo
@freddyym Monitoring & surveillance of non-criminal individuals is inevitably, and historically, used as a tool for oppression.Ask a person if they would want to be made to wear a monitoring ankle bracelet. If not, then they might start to see why they shouldn't volunteer for a digital ankle bracelet.
@freddyym (And I use he term non-criminal loosely as it's easily distorted)
@Coffee @freddyym Martin Luther King is a good example. He was wiretapped despite not breaking the law. The FBI managed to dig up an affair he was having, which they then used against his movement by threatening to embarrass those who would award him with human rights awards by smearing MLK's character.