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I find it sad that people value privacy so highly over anything else, including accessibility and opportunity. It's not that I don't treasure my privacy. I just

by fridek 10y ago

I find it sad that people value privacy so highly over anything else, including accessibility and opportunity. It's not that I don't treasure my privacy. I just don't get how it can be more important that ability to work on interesting stuff, freedom to access world's information and to learn from it, or even control over my devices configuration. Privacy should be an added value, not something we put in front of everything else. It would be meaningless if web wouldn't enable us to do what we do. So in reality, isn't this poll just a list of things we already have thanks to the internet, plus one thing we don't have - privacy?

CaptSpify 10y ago
I think privacy really enables all of those others in a way though. If I want to learn about reverse-engineering, it's just as important to me that nobody knows that's what I'm learning, as it is to have access to the learning materials. Knowing that all my research and learning is being sent to 3rd parties has definitely curbed my desire to learn some subjects.
panglott 10y ago
Privacy is a foundational value. It is necessary for trust and sharing. Without financial privacy, online commerce would not exist because people wouldn't trust to share their banking information. Without some modicum of social privacy, people wouldn't trust to share information with their friends & family. & I avoid using the services I do not trust.
Millennium 10y ago
Without privacy, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no freedom, no access, and no opportunity. Even learning is hampered severely in a changing world, where the question of what society demands remain private changes from one day to the next. In other words, privacy comes before everything else because it underpins everything else. Remove it, and the other values are all either illusory, or their non-illusory status is transient at best.

by fridek 10y ago

CaptSpify 10y ago

I think privacy really enables all of those others in a way though. If I want to learn about reverse-engineering, it's just as important to me that nobody knows that's what I'm learning, as it is to have access to the learning materials. Knowing that all my research and learning is being sent to 3rd parties has definitely curbed my desire to learn some subjects.

panglott 10y ago

Privacy is a foundational value. It is necessary for trust and sharing. Without financial privacy, online commerce would not exist because people wouldn't trust to share their banking information. Without some modicum of social privacy, people wouldn't trust to share information with their friends & family. & I avoid using the services I do not trust.

Millennium 10y ago

Without privacy, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no freedom, no access, and no opportunity. Even learning is hampered severely in a changing world, where the question of what society demands remain private changes from one day to the next. In other words, privacy comes before everything else because it underpins everything else. Remove it, and the other values are all either illusory, or their non-illusory status is transient at best.