@Em0nM4stodon how was said here. The education why the privacy is important. how the lost of privacy negatively influence our lives. most of ppl see me as crazy paranoi

@Em0nM4stodon Possibly a distinction between privacy and anonymity. People often think privacy on the Internet = Anonymity and that can feel dangerous because we’ve all been trolled, and how can people be held to account for bad actions if everyone can be anonymous. That is seems to be why policymakers in govt or companies want people to identify themselves. Finding ways to strike a balance here could go a long way to overcoming the concerns.

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There's an expectation that personal data falls into "public", "private", and different "sensitivity buckets" withing the private category, with the default category being "public", and that you must have a nefarious reason for NOT wanting that data public.

The only category IMO is "private" and I'll share what I want with whoever I want when *I* decide to. No one else.

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@Em0nM4stodon Missing: language and discussion about consent and its role in privacy and rights, digital or otherwise.

Privacy should be a default with any exception requiring affirmative consent. There should be no need to block cookies just as there should be no need to tell businesses not to peer into one's home windows *without consent*.

I find consent to be discussed too infrequently went it comes to rights -- we have the right to say no and exceptions should be extremely obvious.

@Em0nM4stodon A way to win. I don't mean that harshly, but, I see pushback against age verification and face scanning and chat control and it's great... and it feels like fighting a hydra with toothpicks. On every single topic, it is continual. Freedom could lose lastingly if anyone lets up and any of these gain ground, but where can freedom obtain a lasting win? A right enshrined rather than enmired.

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understanding there's a difference between social networking and social media. that different goals require different approaches and norms. organizing and community are different from outreach and journalism. there's overlap but sometimes we disagree on how to do things because we want different outcomes.

we can want virality and that doesn't require algos and it's not a bad thing. or we can want small fedi and strict rules on federating. but we have to discuss it in good faith.

@Em0nM4stodon Agree with previous responses in that most people don't know or understand how privacy protects them, what it protects them from. If people don't see the benefits privacy will give them, they won't come on board the privacy-first bus.
Of course, the underlying ignorance is of the consumer slavery culture that gangster capitalism has promoted as "living a better life". As I understand it, the whole point of data collection is improved marketing. Once people grok in its fullness that because they've sold their privacy they're being manipulated in absolutely every way possible, privacy will be a no-brainer.
(and, FYI, that's a Heinlein reference, not a wealth hoarder/concept hijacker one)

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Honestly? A genuine effort to make these concepts real and comprehensible for laypeople, who are the most at risk. There is a real lack of understanding amongst most people of how our data is and can be used and why we should care. Entirely aside from the ethical need to bring them along, without popular support, any proposed solution - be it software, policy or otherwise - will struggle to breakthrough.

@Em0nM4stodon Convincing explanations of why privacy makes a concrete difference, rather than presenting it as an abstract risk (human rights, democracy, slippery slope). Many people can't understand why they should care.

@Em0nM4stodon we have too few politicians that understand how fundamental privacy is to the very concept and existence of democracy