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humanity is 300k years old and we've been online for only 30 years. the erosion of privacy today will have lasting consequences for hundreds, maybe thousands of years to come. if we don't fight for privacy today, we won't be able to fix it in the distant future. this scares me.

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treat private data like toxic waste. don't produce it and if you must, better have a plan for how to secure it.
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humanity is 300k years old and we've been online for only 30 years. the erosion of privacy today will have lasting consequences for hundreds, maybe thousands of years to come. if we don't fight for privacy today, we won't be able to fix it in the distant future. this scares me.
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Yes. I agree. The problem is the definition... Government types think it means "registered and paid up" to be legally enforceable, if disputed by the public. These types love to say "You're not free!" because they want to be the middleman to collect and protect your privacy (aka property, ownership, rights, etc)... Toilet-using types think it means "don't look" (aka secrecy). Egalitarians, like JFK, hated secrecy and found it to be repugnant when used for covert means. Technology and encryption give us the hope that the role of privacy enforcers can be subsumbed into the trustworthy, unbiased, cold and mechanistic gears of uncaring maths and machines, but this idea of complete autonomy and primacy at the undividual's level, scares the living daylights out of authoritarian types. Not only will they lose their jobs, but new and untold possibilities will emerge for EVERYONE. This pandoric panic drives authoritarians to seek control of the internals of the machine in order to decipher and rewrite the encryption keys to our Freedom. As the immense gravity of technology pulls the apex of the pyramid down into the ground plane of commonality, the all-seeing eye will either be blinded at the ecliptic or sink lower to stare at us from below, in the underworld. Perhaps the inversion has already happened and we are fighting to level the playing field back to the ecliptic plane of fairness and rightness.
One big solution... Is it possible to break or crack earth's magnetic field? If yes, then this can be a solution. To stop surveillance we should shutdown internet, to shutdown whole internet we need to dismantle satelites, to kill all satelites we need to disturb magnetic field. Win : No internet, No surveillance, no control. Drawback : We will go back in stone ages, and restart. I'm just being delusional here. Btw: Scientist already noticed some cracks in Earth's magnetic field.