In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:
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In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:
1: The abdication mindset: The idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.
2: The absolutist mindset: The idea that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. But the reality is much more nuanced than this.
Even if they sound like diametric opposites, both those ideas can be very damaging to privacy.
Privacy isn't just about the tools we use. Privacy is a culture we need to build, together.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
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In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:
1: The abdication mindset: The idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.
2: The absolutist mindset: The idea that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. But the reality is much more nuanced than this.
Even if they sound like diametric opposites, both those ideas can be very damaging to privacy.
Privacy isn't just about the tools we use. Privacy is a culture we need to build, together.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
I fully recognize that all my efforts to block Google and company probably don't amount to much. I run a fully-free Android alternative (LineageOS), I have filtering in place to block trackers on the web, I run my own email, and use separate profiles for my Firefox browsing, to isolate banking from news. It's a _pain_ to live like I do.
But I continue to do it as my own bit of resistance. And I'm OK with that.
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In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:
1: The abdication mindset: The idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.
2: The absolutist mindset: The idea that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. But the reality is much more nuanced than this.
Even if they sound like diametric opposites, both those ideas can be very damaging to privacy.
Privacy isn't just about the tools we use. Privacy is a culture we need to build, together.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/17/privacy-is-not-dead/
@Em0nM4stodon thanks for the post and reminder I am the impatience one. I have to pay more attention about my behave to others for sure. Sometimes this approach it discourages myself also because be perfect 100% is very exhausting
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