Privacy vs Secrecy define. Types / degrees of privacy, the content of any particular message vs knowing who and where you are.
You can't really do anything worthwhile and remain anonymous. Of course there is Satoshi. Anyone else?
What can You do to make an impact and maintain a relevant amount of privacy?
How much privacy would you say a world leader in any field really has? Name someone who has a national impact, we know their birthday, finances, children's names, we have biometrics / could make deep fakes
Most impactful figures (leaders, innovators) become visible; anonymity limits scale/influence.
Privacy erodes naturally with success/visibility.
Yes high-impact contributions happen pseudonymously or semi-anonymously (open-source devs, whistleblowers, underground artists, dissidents in oppressive regimes). They need to reamin anonymous to keep from being persecuted by state actors. Privacy tools (Tor, encrypted comms) allow meaningful impact while reducing personal risk. Privacy enables risk-taking for worthwhile ends (e.g., dissident journalism).
Strip state actors of privacy and immunity. If you want to be a public servant be a Public Servant.
In physical-presence ethics, visibility might align with "embodied" accountability, but forced exposure could deter ethical innovation.
The value of privacy - create an outline, link pro-privacy texts - steelman privacy, steelman Secrecy?
A right to be seen! The next layer of protection beyond habeus corpus. Not produce the body, don't dissapear the body. The state has no leave to do anything to me in private. It is a lie that any policies prohibiting this are for the privacy of the prisoners. I would much rather have no privacy than to be abused or assaulted by guards or other prisoners in private. On prison reform, waiting on the feds and the prison guard union to do anything is delusional. Here's a solution - a non-profit prison, full transparency. Here's what I mean, all founding documents, all expenses, all filings, donations, distributions are not just public but easily accessible. Then, all employee applications are public. There is no private personnel file. If you don't want your application / job history and moving forward exact pay and performance reviews to be public, don't apply. This ggoes for all staff from the warden to the custodian. Furthermore, the entire facility is wired and streamed live to the world with the exeption of the bathrooms, which are single use so no funny business. That includes the parking lot, visitors, guard's breakroom, everything. All bids / contracts, the budget itself on a public blockchain. Participation by prisoners is always voluntary, everyone there chose to be. The the question, do we monetize the feed and how would the funds be distributed. Brin’s Transparent Society, sousveillance thinkers)
The cost of privacy measures, time, stress, constant updates and asst tech problems, opportunity costs -- evil hides in the shadows, the dirty deeds are done in the dark, sunlight is the best disinfectant, transparency, most child abuse, spousal abuse, even human rights abuses at the national level are all done behind closed doors.
The efficacy of privacy measures Is it security through obsurity / anonimity? Is it if you keep your head down they won't come looking for you? If you become a target of state action, how effective do you think all your security measures would be? Do you think you have better opsec than Julian Assange, Ross Ulbrecht, Edward Snowden, Mega etc? You know they can still track you from space, plant bugs, hear through walls, hire lip readers etc. The only reason you have any semblance of privacy at all is because they don't care about you. As soon as the eye sets itself upon you, all your preparations are likely for naught.
Privacy is dead, list all major privacy abuses, corporate and state, databases, datastreams, collection and sales, you are the product Between all public leaks (list), private leaks (list), the combination of all government databases, federal, state and local surveilance, private business and residential cameras, your phone eavesdropping, car, satellites, emails, texts, banking and purchasing, irs, social media, iot, ring, traffic cameras, facial recognition, wifi mapping
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What privacy do you think you have and where. Can you point to it? Is the privacy in the room with us now? Point on the doll where the privacy touched you. A glass house is preferable to a house full of hidden cameras because one is a lie
If not anonimity specifically, which things are you looking to keep private, and from who? All the people who I most don't want to have information about me already do and could easily get more. Privacy once lost can not be regained. lamo @ companies claiming to remove your information from the darkweb. Orwell, soviet union everyone beiliving or pretending to believe the lie. The lie is you have privacy, you don't (meaningfully) but beliving you do means allowing bureaucrats and state actors to have privacy, and they actually do. masks, homes unlisted, joe arpaio and they have secrecy. Every minute spent "securing privacy" lying to yourself, would be better spent taking privacy away from state actors and bureaucrats. Dox them all
sousveillance, rate my cop, little sis, other transparency sites
Privy, etymology, most desire for privacy is motivated by shame and fear. which doesn't mean it's not warranted. we once had our names and phone numbers published in a book that was delivered to everyone in town. Why did that stop? telemarketers. Most people are afraid they'll be seen breaking some retarded law and they're right (6 felonies per day) They'll be seen taking extacy or ketamine or heroin or whatever. What percentage of people Don't take some sort of illicit drug? The unwilling to point out the emperor's lack of undies allows the ridiculous drug war to continue while the cia imports the drugs and uses the money to fund black ops, the cops arrest people and then steal their drugs or just distribute their own and use the badge to shut down the competition. Drug stats Homosexuals didn't stop getting persecuted until they stopped hiding.
So called privacy concerns protect the perpetrators more than the victims, see epstein Recent 2025-2026 developments under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (signed Nov 2025) show partial releases of millions of pages/videos/images, but critics (UN experts, survivors, media like Ms. Magazine, Al Jazeera, NYT op-eds) argue secrecy/redactions still shield powerful perpetrators/associates while exposing/retraumatizing victims (e.g., unredacted victim details vs. redacted powerful names). This supports "secrecy protects predators, not victims" — delayed/full transparency enabled Epstein's crimes for decades via elite networks, non-prosecution deals, and hidden files. Survivors push for more openness to end impunity.
Data brokers - they can't sell your data if it's freely available. why can't you make money selling your own data. There's a browser that does this?