--Originally published at Tobi`s Blog
In an world where government surveillance and data bought from companies is used to stop protest movements, to guide the public opinion and to stop progress we all need to secure our data to keep the world turning. Otherwise we loose our influence on the future and give all the power to governments and companies. This is undermining the principles of democracy.
It’s not sufficient to just harden yourself. I’ll give you some examples.
When only a few use encryption, its them who are suspicious. If everybody does no one is, or all. Sadly the latter is the common mindset of intelligence agencies.
Extremely stupid Facebook games of thirdparties are getting access to our data when we accept to use them. You’re not using them? Well, defintely a bunch of your friends does…
Today the technical means we have are beyond those mentioned in dystopian litarature.
Face recognition, cameras at every corner, social network mapping, profiling, position tracking via Smartphone and many more are reality.
I don’t want to live in a world where I run into problems for
what I read, talk about with friends or even just think.
Conclusion? Please care for your privacy and let people know!!!
P.S. Very interesting talk about government surveillance
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