3w ago

Privacy is Power

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You guys need to learn what a meme is.
- A meme is a thing thats shared, so this becomes a meme when it’s posted to share with others.
  The hell do YOU think a meme is?
  
  The hell do YOU think a meme is?
  This, and exclusively this:
  
  (I do not personally agree)
  
  A continuously adapted and shaped image, text or video that gets shared relentlessly.
  If something keeps getting shared unchanged, I wouldn't actually consider it a meme, only if it's altered. Otherwise I would just call it a viral post or video or something.
  Actually, it's pretty hard to define a meme now that I try to think about it...
- Why?
  
  I think they were referring to this community being called microblog memes and this post kinda not being a meme per se
- Memes and jokes should have a basis in reality or they'll get shit on for being dumb. I know what a meme is. This was shit 🤷‍♂️
  If I post shitty right wing memes do I get a free pass or does it end up in the right can't meme?
  
  Do you think people wanting privacy is somehow a political stance? Even more so, a... leftist political stance?
  Do tories not mind being spied on by their everything providers? xD

"I want convenience and I have nothing to hide, so I'm willing to give my data away."
Ok, but other people aren't.
Your vote affects other people.
It's great that your needs are met but people other than you will be hurt by this.
- This is one of my greatest issues with my fellow citizens. They really don’t care about others, not even a little bit, when taken as a whole.

Meh. Pseudo-wisdom.
The wealthy rule with or without your information. They did just fine before the advent of scraping every data point about you off the internet, your phone, or card swipe. Your info today is just another datapoint in some company’s portfolio to be bought and sold.
Authoritarian governments get that way to protect wealth and power. It’s not your personal information that matters as much as what you say that matters. If you cannot be safe in expressing dissent and keep that private, then you’ve lost.
- Information is an obscenely valuable resource and information asymmetry decides wars.
  
  Yeah, tactical information. Locations of troops, resources, roads, bridges, opposition location, etc etc.
  Not what I bought at the store.
  Let’s not conflate the two.

If you give your data to companies, they'll sell it to the government, circumventing legal processes that are supposed to protect against warrantless spying.

I have nothing to hide: takes lock off front door, removes pin from phone, tells everyone who asks pin to debit card, accepts all cookies automatically, fills out invasive surveys for vouchers.

I was having a parking dispute with my apartment manager where I was borrowing a vehicle while mine was in the shop. She sent a warning letter to not park it there. After unsuccessfully trying to state my case, I asked to speak to the owners for their understanding. She said absolutely not and refused to give me any information about them. I decided to do some online research with her name and company to find out the owner's identity but was only able to find her arrest history instead, I even found her date of birth and address. It turns out she was arrested three times for drunk driving and being under the influence of other narcotics with the last time happening just months before.
I can find some dirt that could potentially be used to blackmail my manager but couldn't find a single piece of information about the owners of a large apartment complex. Privacy is indeed power.
- https://osintframework.com/
  Hope it helps for next time.
  
  This is cool

The first part is true. Why would you want corporations knowing about you. But the government part doesn't make sense. Why should your data be kept from the government? The government is the one organization I trust with my data because they hold records on every single citizen and have no monetary incentive to sell or misuse it.
My data in this case being stuff like Name, Address, workplace, family, medical history, employment history, friends.
Stuff I wouldn't want the government knowing would be my hobbies, my chatlogs, my search history. If they want that they should get a warrant.
I'm OK with the government buying/collecting and using stuff like location data if it's anonymized. I understand this stuff is needed to see general trends in the population and plan accordingly.
- What she is talking about is the data the Chinese government collects about its people like where you go when, who you meet, what you buy, what you talk about, who you're friends with, if you are pregnant or not, etc.
  
  Or what the NSA collects about Americans... like where you go when, who you meet, what you buy, what you talk about, who you're friends with, if you are pregnant or not, etc.
  
  Thanks for providing context I probably should have checked to see what she was referring to.
- What about when a government decides that you must wear a special armband for being Jewish or Roma or gay?
  
  How is that relevant?
- The government is the one organization I trust with my data because they hold records on every single citizen and have no monetary incentive to sell or misuse it.
  My government buys my raw fucking web traffic from my service provider.

always hass been. personal datas are new oil of world

Privacy is power and by stealing privacy yout get the power.

Privacy.. who gave you that private info in the first place?
Is it your bank account # or the banks? Is it your ss# or the governments Is it your email address or Google's?

The thing that is valued the most is convenience or we wouldn't be in this situation

Privacy has nothing to do with the fascist or autoritive state. Nonsense stuff.
- It seems you have not lived in a fascist or autoritive state yet so you didn't experience it, good for you.

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