Raphael Albert
@r_alb@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.

Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.

I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodites. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.

I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.

That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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#privacy#DataProtection
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@r_alb @jstatepost Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.

(And for anyone who thinks “yeah, duh!”, I had to utter that exact sentence at a round-table meeting with “invited privacy experts” and the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy because they were bikeshedding the definition.)