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> The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them. That’s because we don’t have adequate privacy safeguard
by mulmen 5y ago
> The CIA can and will monitor your offline and online behavior if your profile is interesting to them.
That’s because we don’t have adequate privacy safeguards in modern western society.
> Privacy and anonymity are absolutely not orthogonal.
Privacy and anonymity are not synonymous. I can have a private conversation with a friend. That does not require anonymity. In fact it precludes anonymity because my friend and I know who each other are. Privacy says nobody else knows what we discussed or even that we had a conversation.
> KYC?
Know Your Client? This is a new term to me but sounds like an authentication concept. Which is compatible with privacy but precludes anonymity, by definition.
- sdenton4 5y agoKnow Your Customer, a vital concept in financial services, which basically makes it much easier to track down and prevent money laundering and fraud.
- mulmen 5y agoI can privately communicate with my bank. But I cannot do so anonymously. LEO can’t see what I am doing on the wire. But with due process they can compel my bank to reveal what I have been doing with my money.