Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.
Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.
I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodities. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.
I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.
That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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#privacy #DataProtection
@r_alb @jstatepost Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.
(And for anyone who thinks “yeah, duh!”, I had to utter that exact sentence at a round-table meeting with “invited privacy experts” and the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy because they were bikeshedding the definition.)
@aral
> Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.
Importantly: “[…] what you want to share, *and with whom* […]”
I don't know the exact “invited privacy experts” in this case, but too many of them assume sharing is all-or-nothing and once-for-all.
No! Just because I consent to share information with my doctor, does not imply I consent to sharing that with their cloud provider, nor with my government, nor with my family.
Raphael Albert
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