What do you think is missing the most currently in the privacy and digital rights activism landscape?

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

What do you think is missing the most currently in the privacy and digital rights activism landscape?

#Privacy #DigitalRights #Activism

[modulux@node.isonomia.net]

@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.

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@Em0nM4stodon an admission from the community that we're standing on the shoulders of giants, and that we are still essentially building high-security vaults on top of foundations we don't own and can't see.

Proprietary, closed-source firmware in phones, laptops, etc. is my Roman Empire.

[customdeluxe@hub.uckermark.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

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.

[r_alb@mastodon.social]

@Taco_lad @Em0nM4stodon
I agree, and please allow me to build on your thoughts:
What I'd like to have are more ways for those who already care to organize, articulate their demands and bring them to our politicians.
It worked in the European Union with chat control and im sure it can work again. And again. And again.

[hidden@androiddev.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

Community led digital spaces.

Experiments in the vein of @ntnsndr work and/or blacksky and/or SOLID individual data pods/services.

Privacy-first distributed social networks with affordances for small-ish thematic spaces / group self-governing.

Less emphasis on tech and more on people power and education among them.

[mercurial@todon.nl]

@Taco_lad @Em0nM4stodon Oh, they understand all right.