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I think that the only way to really drive home the importance of digital privacy rights is to craft a bit of targeted advertising that _only_ your senator or re

I think that the only way to really drive home the importance of digital privacy rights is to craft a bit of targeted advertising that _only_ your senator or representative sees and that follows them _everywhere_ online.

Buttons840 10y ago
Why only senators? It would be an effective way to teach the public too. "Hi, <full name>. I know you live at <address>, and that <other facts>. If you care about privacy go to eff.org (or some other organization)." You might also include a message along the lines of "everyone knows this information about you, it's just that we're the only one telling you that we know".
- kingbirdy 10y ago
  That's a great way to make the general public hate the EFF because they think it's spying on them.
anigbrowl 10y ago
Why would you only want the politicians to see it? Are they somehow unable to install adblockers or have aides take care of that for them? Don't be so naive. Politicians do not care about such nonsense, because they don't have to deal with it, because they have power. What politicians care about is their credibility, and if the public can't see what's going on then it has no impact on their credibility. You seem to think that what we need to do is help politicians understand the significance of what they're doing, and that once they see it our way they'll do The Right Thing. But this is to assume that the politicians and the constituencies that elected them share your basic values about fairness, privacy, and so on. In many cases, they don't.
haspoken 10y ago
The only way is to communicate to politicians in their own language - money. Put the money toward campaign contributions to outbid the competition. Apparently they are relatively cheap and you only need a majority consisting of the cheapest ones. Here is the apparent price list for the congress people involved: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-...

Buttons840 10y ago

Why only senators? It would be an effective way to teach the public too. "Hi, <full name>. I know you live at <address>, and that <other facts>. If you care about privacy go to eff.org (or some other organization)." You might also include a message along the lines of "everyone knows this information about you, it's just that we're the only one telling you that we know".

kingbirdy 10y ago
That's a great way to make the general public hate the EFF because they think it's spying on them.

anigbrowl 10y ago

Why would you only want the politicians to see it? Are they somehow unable to install adblockers or have aides take care of that for them? Don't be so naive. Politicians do not care about such nonsense, because they don't have to deal with it, because they have power. What politicians care about is their credibility, and if the public can't see what's going on then it has no impact on their credibility. You seem to think that what we need to do is help politicians understand the significance of what they're doing, and that once they see it our way they'll do The Right Thing. But this is to assume that the politicians and the constituencies that elected them share your basic values about fairness, privacy, and so on. In many cases, they don't.

haspoken 10y ago

The only way is to communicate to politicians in their own language - money. Put the money toward campaign contributions to outbid the competition. Apparently they are relatively cheap and you only need a majority consisting of the cheapest ones. Here is the apparent price list for the congress people involved: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-...