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www.weforum.org
  • 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.
    • 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.