eugenesparrow

My brief argument for privacy, because nobody cares anyway.

No matter what the setting, online or in-person, you are not the same person at a social gathering that you are in a small personal group or one-on-one with someone.

While public meeting places are necessary and fun, so too are private and personal spaces for individuals to be themselves.

We have locks and doors and safes and keys for our *physical* personal items, but seem to disregard our *digital* ones.

It should be incontrovertibly known as truth at this point that every SMS text message, every email (Gmail), every post, every photo, every story every Messenger interaction, every Search, every webpage visited, every WiFi connected to, every cashApp, Venmo, and much much more is logged, visible, searchable, recoverable and liable to be brought up against you if need be.

We know, we know, who cares, why do I care. Fuck them. They can listen to whatever I’m saying, pssh.

One reason:

Stop being a fucking pussy about your right do what you want and to speak freely. In the digital age, more than ever, we have the means and the tools and the right to anonymity and privacy to subvert large power systems and their control, and yet we utilize almost none of that technological potential.

We have more capability than ever to build communities of like minded individuals, and we should have absolutely zero reason for doing that on corporately provided, government accessed, AI moderated, complete open-door networks that really limit our freedom to think and BE as we are.

We need to own our technology, and not the other way around.

Use encryption, understand it. Value privacy and discretion, and be yourself without the cloud of knowing someone is looking right in through the window at what deserves to be your private life.

-§parrow