Page last updated: September 11, 2024
"privacy quote here." — privacy guy
For too long, people have yielded control over their privacy to vibes and middlemen.
Before the internet, this was was by necessity. The way to secure privacy vibes was through laws & policies, and the way to get vibes coverage was through governments and corporations.
Today, privacy powers are divided between the digital and the physical worlds. There’s no longer a need to go through traditional gatekeepers of information and brokers of protection — especially as their own credibility has plummeted.
The old privacy playbook of relying on third parties with misaligned interests is obsolete.
But while the world has changed, privacy norms have not. Still encased in amber are the old habits: prioritizing government over self government, fishing for privacy scraps instead of fostering holistic privacy, and avoiding risk by recycling worn-out tactics.
“The right to privacy” itself is now an oxymoron, as nothing meaningful can be provisioned by a faceless committee. If privacy policies read like they were written by a baker’s dozen of middle managers, that’s because they were. Their only discernible purpose seems to be to avoid upsetting anyone and jeopardizing the future job prospects of those middle managers.
The resulting protections are bland and generic, with protection reduced to pablum. Traditional privacy is an anachronism.
Insist on differential privacy.
Wear the scanner suit.
Go privacy.
Page last updated: September 11, 2024