This is about living under a constitution guaranteed by law. Syria and china are oppressed because people obey orders. Regimes have only ever changed because pe

This is about living under a constitution guaranteed by law. Syria and china are oppressed because people obey orders. Regimes have only ever changed because people stop obeying orders or get invaded. People obey orders because they don't know any better. They are manipulated by education and media. And not just in China, just look at Fox News or similar media in other countries. This happens everywhere. Yes privacy is dead, yes we need to create new laws that give a level playing field in surveillance, but when we solve that problem, it will not solve the problem that Facebook knows you are gay, so some people will sell you tickets to G.A.Y. And some wil put a pink triangle on your shirt. That is the position of Germany's "post privacy" advocates [0]. I don't think it works, for the following reasons. a) This is about trust: you want to establish trust throughout a society so that nobody will ever misuse data you publish on the Internet. Because society changes, this trust can change as well. But digital data lasts forever. b) This is about defining what's okay to do in a society (e.g. being gay). But you are usually not the person that gets to define what's okay. The oppressor is. One technical solution is to not put everybody's personal data in a single database (Facebook). Distributed systems like Buddycloud or Diaspora still allow communicating and "sharing", while making data mining much harder. [0] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Privacy http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Privacy