#righttoprivacy — Public Fediverse posts
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@jwcph @pluralistic AI seems to be the ultimate spying tool across the whole of society and industry. Right now every corner of our economy and society is being poisoned by it, collecting and analyzing data of what we do in real time. Already there is hardly any way to turn off your new car's (or phone's) data collection and automatic transmission (to any number of 3rd parties, except to yourself), including GPS, video, and other sensory data.
Now, for the first time in history people in power are able to dedicate one or more AI agent to every single person / consumer / voter on the planet. This personalized AI will then know everything about you, your (past and present) friends, movements, preferences, dreams, affairs, everything, and also know how to best manipulate you.
No wonder they need thousands of gigantic "data centers" ...
Only strong democracies and even stronger laws can stop this abuse!
#TheBillionairesDidThis #RightToPrivacy #RightToChoose #RightToRepair #AIPollution #RightToYourData #TheRightToKnow #RightToTurnOffAI -
@jwcph @pluralistic AI seems to be the ultimate spying tool across the whole of society and industry. Right now every corner of our economy and society is being poisoned by it, collecting and analyzing data of what we do in real time. Already there is hardly any way to turn off your new car's (or phone's) data collection and automatic transmission (to any number of 3rd parties, except to yourself), including GPS, video, and other sensory data.
Now, for the first time in history people in power are able to dedicate one or more AI agent to every single person / consumer / voter on the planet. This personalized AI will then know everything about you, your (past and present) friends, movements, preferences, dreams, affairs, everything, and also know how to best manipulate you.
No wonder they need thousands of gigantic "data centers" ...
Only strong democracies and even stronger laws can stop this abuse!
#TheBillionairesDidThis #RightToPrivacy #RightToChoose #RightToRepair #AIPollution #RightToYourData #TheRightToKnow #RightToTurnOffAI -
@jwcph @pluralistic AI seems to be the ultimate spying tool across the whole of society and industry. Right now every corner of our economy and society is being poisoned by it, collecting and analyzing data of what we do in real time. Already there is hardly any way to turn off your new car's (or phone's) data collection and automatic transmission (to any number of 3rd parties, except to yourself), including GPS, video, and other sensory data.
Now, for the first time in history people in power are able to dedicate one or more AI agent to every single person / consumer / voter on the planet. This personalized AI will then know everything about you, your (past and present) friends, movements, preferences, dreams, affairs, everything, and also know how to best manipulate you.
No wonder they need thousands of gigantic "data centers" ...
Only strong democracies and even stronger laws can stop this abuse!
#TheBillionairesDidThis #RightToPrivacy #RightToChoose #RightToRepair #AIPollution #RightToYourData #TheRightToKnow #RightToTurnOffAI -
@jwcph @pluralistic AI seems to be the ultimate spying tool across the whole of society and industry. Right now every corner of our economy and society is being poisoned by it, collecting and analyzing data of what we do in real time. Already there is hardly any way to turn off your new car's (or phone's) data collection and automatic transmission (to any number of 3rd parties, except to yourself), including GPS, video, and other sensory data.
Now, for the first time in history people in power are able to dedicate one or more AI agent to every single person / consumer / voter on the planet. This personalized AI will then know everything about you, your (past and present) friends, movements, preferences, dreams, affairs, everything, and also know how to best manipulate you.
No wonder they need thousands of gigantic "data centers" ...
Only strong democracies and even stronger laws can stop this abuse!
#TheBillionairesDidThis #RightToPrivacy #RightToChoose #RightToRepair #AIPollution #RightToYourData #TheRightToKnow #RightToTurnOffAI -
@jwcph @pluralistic AI seems to be the ultimate spying tool across the whole of society and industry. Right now every corner of our economy and society is being poisoned by it, collecting and analyzing data of what we do in real time. Already there is hardly any way to turn off your new car's (or phone's) data collection and automatic transmission (to any number of 3rd parties, except to yourself), including GPS, video, and other sensory data.
Now, for the first time in history people in power are able to dedicate one or more AI agent to every single person / consumer / voter on the planet. This personalized AI will then know everything about you, your (past and present) friends, movements, preferences, dreams, affairs, everything, and also know how to best manipulate you.
No wonder they need thousands of gigantic "data centers" ...
Only strong democracies and even stronger laws can stop this abuse!
#TheBillionairesDidThis #RightToPrivacy #RightToChoose #RightToRepair #AIPollution #RightToYourData #TheRightToKnow #RightToTurnOffAI -
[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
📍
Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
📍
Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
📍
Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
📍
Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
#JohnRoss7 #Mastodon -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
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🚨 C’est le 3e vote sur #ChatControl en moins de 4 mois.
NON, c’est NON : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/Ce système de surveillance de masse déguisé menace les communications privées et ouvre la porte à une surveillance plus large.
📣 Contactez vos représentants et demandez-leur de voter CONTRE : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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🚨 C’est le 3e vote sur #ChatControl en moins de 4 mois.
NON, c’est NON : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/Ce système de surveillance de masse déguisé menace les communications privées et ouvre la porte à une surveillance plus large.
📣 Contactez vos représentants et demandez-leur de voter CONTRE : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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🚨 C’est le 3e vote sur #ChatControl en moins de 4 mois.
NON, c’est NON : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/Ce système de surveillance de masse déguisé menace les communications privées et ouvre la porte à une surveillance plus large.
📣 Contactez vos représentants et demandez-leur de voter CONTRE : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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🚨 C’est le 3e vote sur #ChatControl en moins de 4 mois.
NON, c’est NON : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/Ce système de surveillance de masse déguisé menace les communications privées et ouvre la porte à une surveillance plus large.
📣 Contactez vos représentants et demandez-leur de voter CONTRE : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
_____
WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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Kerala Police has issued a strong warning against recording and sharing private visuals without consent, amid criticism over videos from actor Salim Kumar's funeral. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/filming-grief-for-views-kerala-police-says-it-could-land-you-in-jail-f116skt8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaPolice #PrivacyViolation #RightToPrivacy #ITAct #SocialMedia
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Kerala Police has issued a strong warning against recording and sharing private visuals without consent, amid criticism over videos from actor Salim Kumar's funeral. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/filming-grief-for-views-kerala-police-says-it-could-land-you-in-jail-f116skt8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #KeralaPolice #PrivacyViolation #RightToPrivacy #ITAct #SocialMedia
