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  • Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”.
  • In response, people are “waking up” to privacy, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of secure messaging service Signal.
  • Here, she explores the drivers behind this shift and how it could impact the digital landscape.
  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    6 days ago

    Not sure if I agree but many rights are so important its hard to put one over another. Speech is very high on my list and the use of valuable in the title is strange. I don’t see the qote anywhere in the article though but what they do say is powerful:

    “I think of privacy from the framework of fundamental human rights, the rights of private communication, to live a private life, to think and do and communicate with who you want."

    “We can’t build new worlds, we can’t imagine new paradigms without that incubation space, without the safety to experiment with ideas and think about what could work or not.”

    • einkorn@feddit.orgEnglish
      24·
      6 days ago

      OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

      To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

      However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      512·
      6 days ago

      Food isn’t a right though. It’s necessary for life, sure, but nobody is obligated to provide you with food unless you’re incarcerated or something.