Post 3271819 by kylerankin@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #3271819 by kylerankin@mastodon.social
       2019-01-23T01:45:19Z
       
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       The word "security" has long been misused to justify all sorts of measures that conveniently give a company more control and the user less. Now "privacy" is getting the same treatment: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
       
 (DIR) Post #3271820 by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
       2019-01-23T01:53:46Z
       
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       @kylerankin Do you have a good working definition of #privacy you prefer?I'm finding these distressingly hard to find, even (or /especially/) in serious works (academic papers, policy prescriptions).I'm leaning strongly to:  the ability to effectively define and defend limits on information sharing or disclosure.Jill LePore has been doing some good recent work in this area IMO -- past 5-10 years, actually.Thoughts?
       
 (DIR) Post #3271872 by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
       2019-01-23T01:55:54Z
       
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       And ... in other news, I find my decision to nuke Chrome and Chromium from my systems to be utterly vindicated.
       
 (DIR) Post #3272001 by kylerankin@mastodon.social
       2019-01-23T02:00:33Z
       
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       @dredmorbius Yours seems like a reasonable definition to me.
       
 (DIR) Post #3274500 by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
       2019-01-23T03:44:32Z
       
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       @kylerankin Thanks, it's got some thought into it.  Good thought, I'm not so sure....Another key idea is that privacy seems to be an emergent response to increased capacity for nonlocalised, non-immediate, or durable intrusions.  When surveillance had to happen in person, in time, in space, and wasn't easily communicated  or recorded elsewhere, privacy was ... somewhat self-enforcing.Remote, automated, recorded, broadcast methods raise the ante.  Privacy is a response to infotech advances.
       
 (DIR) Post #3274526 by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
       2019-01-23T03:45:15Z
       
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       @kylerankin And in other news, I'm very much looking forward to the Purism tablets.