Manifestos themselves seem to be an artifact of the era, a time where to be a hero of any kind still seemed within the realm of possible. Since then I've worked

Manifestos themselves seem to be an artifact of the era, a time where to be a hero of any kind still seemed within the realm of possible. Since then I've worked in the field of privacy, advising government agencies about how to comply with regulations that serve as a check on their public service systems being used as secret surveillance tools, and brokered as political favours by their DBAs and managers. It is both the most thankless and personally rewarding work in public service I think, and it's the only place left for courage in the bureaucracy. However, execs have got wise to it and parachuted in some compromised ball players into the top privacy roles, and I think the era of principled privacy advocacy in government has passed. We are about to see the effects of leaving those people with powerful technology without oversight. The manifesto was published in 1993. Here is what I can tell you first hand about privacy in 2022. Depending on where you live: - Your location and pattern of life is tracked 24/7 with an accuracy of a few feet, almost everywhere on the planet. - Your political affiliations and social media relationships are kept as part of a private "risk" profile by financial institutions. - Many of your vaccination records and dates ("hesitancy" info) are already in the hands of political opposition research firms and data brokers. - Platform companies do not keep consistent logs of who accesses your personal information (DMs, locations, affiliations etc), and there are networks of both domestic and foreign political operatives with agendas who regularly look up personal information about others and share it among themselves. - Your health records (abortions, std test dates, disease screenings, etc) are available not just to medical researchers, but also to "social science" and other policy "researchers" with political activist affiliations, and you cannot decline consent for "sharing" it with them. You are a data subject whether you consent or not. - Several government services use so-called "AI" and machine learning to create a pretext or paralell construction for policy decisions. And these are just a few examples. A modern manifesto would likely need to address basic human dignity, and not merely make an appeal to rights and other things paternalistically granted, but rather, it would need to address what you already have and are, what you must actively use code and intention to defend and take, and how you will be reduced to a liquified, neutralized, "person," on the level of a resource or indifferent animal to be managed if you do not. 30 years later, this manifesto is a relic of what we have collectively denied.