Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise
I am back from a fun series of locations. Tweets: MIT Press / @mitpress : Those who know about us have power over us. They can deny us employment, deprive us of credit, restrict our movements, refuse us shelter, membership, or education, manipulate our thinking, suppress our autonomy, and limit our access to the good life. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ ... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : Feel like this pairs well with today's barrage of Amazon product announcements https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ ... MIT Press / @mitpress : “If the apparatus of total surveillance that we have described here were deliberate, centralized, and explicit ... it would demand revolt, and we could conceive of a life outside the totalitarian microscope.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ ... @privacyproject : “Privacy does not mean stopping the flow of data; it means channeling it wisely and justly to serve societal ends and values and the individuals who are its subjects,” write Finn Brunton and @HNissenbaum in this @mitpress excerpt https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/ ...