New Religion: The Church of the Super Paranoid
Jessica left her Google account logged in and a Slashdot article caught my eye. I stopped reading /. for a reason, and one of them is this. I have yet to see any of these "we have no more internet privacies!!11!!" or "Generic Government A is trying to impose restriction C" claims make their way to anything but rumor and gossip. That being said I shall now highlight the part of that thread (as I refuse to read linked articles) that I find most worthwhile. If I were just planning to tell you Slashdot is full of shit I wouldn't make a post longer than a link to their "your rights online" page.
There is a solution, but no guarantee we'll reach it. We need to define an individual's personal information as belonging to that individual, and any use or reference to that information should only be with permission, and based on some good reason. To put actual teeth in such a legal principle, I think it needs to be coupled with a right to store your own information (presumably on your own computer). Without such a basis for protecting privacy... Well, you'd better get use to appearing all over the Internet when you least expect it.
I've been thinking about this; the problem is the legal route to this is pretty much a nonstarter already. But maybe there is a loophole; I think we should all start a church. The Church of the Super Paranoid, or something like that. That way we could cry religious persecution if intrusive privacy-stealing measures are used against us. I'm certain I would have no problem convincing a sizeable chunk of the Slashdot population to swear and affirm (on a stack of punched cards) that their right to crypto and absolute mastery over who sees their porn stash is both vital and indispensable to the very core of their identity. I think it could work.
At the very least, the crazy fundies will lobby for laws that would help us... :0
A post and response, obviously. However the religion mentioned sounds very intriguing. It shall be the basis of my cult. Keep an eye open for updates.
Coming Soon: The Church of the Super Paranoid advocated by Reverend Tony Joy!
[ps]
should anyone read the article and care to paraphrase please do.
[pps]
Slashdot is usefull as a Google rumor mill
There is a solution, but no guarantee we'll reach it. We need to define an individual's personal information as belonging to that individual, and any use or reference to that information should only be with permission, and based on some good reason. To put actual teeth in such a legal principle, I think it needs to be coupled with a right to store your own information (presumably on your own computer). Without such a basis for protecting privacy... Well, you'd better get use to appearing all over the Internet when you least expect it.
I've been thinking about this; the problem is the legal route to this is pretty much a nonstarter already. But maybe there is a loophole; I think we should all start a church. The Church of the Super Paranoid, or something like that. That way we could cry religious persecution if intrusive privacy-stealing measures are used against us. I'm certain I would have no problem convincing a sizeable chunk of the Slashdot population to swear and affirm (on a stack of punched cards) that their right to crypto and absolute mastery over who sees their porn stash is both vital and indispensable to the very core of their identity. I think it could work.
At the very least, the crazy fundies will lobby for laws that would help us... :0
A post and response, obviously. However the religion mentioned sounds very intriguing. It shall be the basis of my cult. Keep an eye open for updates.
Coming Soon: The Church of the Super Paranoid advocated by Reverend Tony Joy!
[ps]
should anyone read the article and care to paraphrase please do.
[pps]
Slashdot is usefull as a Google rumor mill