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Articles to persuade people on privacy 📃

3843 sats \ 12 comments \ @davidw 6 Jan privacy

📚 Articles to persuade people on privacy...

Have you come across any articles or books that opened your eyes to the importance of privacy?

Which would you recommend sharing with family & friends, to motivate them to start taking back control of their digital data? I may go hunting for some of my own faves later. But for now, opening it up to the floor for articles/books that fall into 1 of 2 categories:

For people who don't yet know digital privacy is important for them
To people who want to take back control, but think it's too much of a challenge

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713 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw OP 6 Jan

@ekzyis found a great article from Gloria Zhao, mentioned in his SN post today titled:

Digital Panopticon: Why Privacy is a Human Right

684 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 6 Jan

https://www.citadel21.com/true-names-not-required

https://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters

684 sats \ 0 replies \ @dcc636d03c 6 Jan

A good source for articles & tools is the knowledge base & blog by https://www.privacyguides.org Highly recommended.

553 sats \ 0 replies \ @GrinSingularity 6 Jan

Many important articles on privacy have been written from time to time. However, I will personally refer you to the early 90s starting with the cypherpunks manifesto

https://luongo.pro/cypherpunks/#cypherpunk-manifesto-a-namecpmania https://luongo.pro/cypherpunks/#a-declaration-of-the-independence-of-cyberspace

From there I will refer you to activism.net where you can read articles. If some links don't work you can use the webarchive

232 sats \ 2 replies \ @beorange 7 Jan

Here is one site with a very practical example of why privacy is fundamental to human beings and to freedom:

https://www.socialcooling.com/

I have the impression that it is a very good argument for people that usually simply don't care.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sebastix 7 Jan

Tijmen Schep is the author / artist who made this. I have been following him for many years (he is Dutch just like me). Do you know his other work as well?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw OP 7 Jan

My favourite of the lot. Thanks for being orange.

411 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 7 Jan

Ditched my iphone for GrapheneOS and my $1700 MacBook for a $100 ebay laptop with Debian and nobody in my life cares.

I have been told directly from family members that they are ok with unknown companies seeing what they do online, their pics, texts and phone calls.

Have no idea how to (1) convey to them privacy is important and (2) put into words why in fact I care so much.

390 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 6 Jan

Read/posted about a great substack piece in October about the ills of KYC/AML and how it's actually destroying the world rather than helping it.

Good read for those "who have nothing to hide so why should my privacy matter" mindsets

126 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw OP 6 Jan

A few I've uncovered:

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 6 Jan freebie

I'm quite interested in a film called Total Trust that is due to come out later this month (Jan 2024) https://total-trust.org/

https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/session/#comments

This is pretty basic stuff for folk new to the concept of privacy: https://proton.me/blog/whatsapp-alternatives

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/media/blog/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 6 Jan freebie

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/five-ways-privacy-under-attack/