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Anybody want to take a shot at how all of this will unwind?
by bradgessler 4y ago
Anybody want to take a shot at how all of this will unwind?
- rsyring 4y agoIt won't. Technology brings too much power with relative ease, governments and corporations are and will use it to their own advantage. Most people want convenience above all things and, even if they don't, are relatively powerless to do anything about it anyway. New governments may rise and current ones fall. Ditto large corporations. Any progress made in the pursuit of privacy will be mostly smoke and mirrors. The incentives are just too misaligned.
- bradgessler 4y agoI have this half-baked thought that fighting surveillance to get rid of it probably isn’t the answer. Like most technologies, it can be used for good and bad. What probably needs to happen are laws and regulations for how that data can be used against you, particularly by organizations that have a monopoly on violence. Sadly that would upend the way most institutions work with information, so I’m not optimistic it would actually work in practice.
- fsflover 4y agoGood technology can be developed to fight surveillance in a reasonably convenient way. With time, it can attract enough people to make a change. See: https://qubes-os.org https://qubes-os.org. In addition, turning surveillance against the government could also be beneficial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance.