Re:Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
by pdonis on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:59PM
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> I'm just being realistic and pragmatic.
Being realistic and pragmatic doesn't need to mean being defeatist.
> the inconvenience and the cost of keeping thing private will go up and up
Only if citizens let governments continue to increase their surveillance activities with no oversight and no pushback.
Re:Global Mass Surveillance – The Fourteen Eyes
by matz1 on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @08:56AM
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I'm not defeatist. I'm not defending less privacy for the sake of less privacy. In the end the goal is to not suffer.
Whether its done through less privacy or more privacy doesn't really matter.
>Only if citizens let governments continue to increase their surveillance activities with no oversight and no pushback
I would rather push for more openness and transparency, open up the surveillance for everyone to reduce the information asymmetries.
Or pushing for technology that enable citizen to survilance the government.
I don't necessarily want to, I'm just being realistic and pragmatic.
>But people like me who do not want to do that should not be forced to.
No one is forced to but the inconvenience and the cost of keeping thing private will go up and up.