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High intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️

“What do you have to hide?“

Everything.

Full stop. Period.

Every. Thing.

What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.

Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.

It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.

Every. Thing.

It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.

#privacy #surveillance

Feb 11 at 2:17amWeb
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 11

While we’re discussing privacy, no you do not have permission or a “right” to read your partner’s chat messages.

I don’t care if they gave you permission to look through their phone/devices whenever you want.

A chat involves two or more people. They may have given you their consent and permission, but the other people in the chat sure as hell didn’t.

Their privacy is important too.

#privacy #surveillance

Show threadrenegadesporkFeb 11
@totalclaireity IMO: If you feel any desire to read their messages, there’s already a trust issue that needs to be addressed.
Show threadArtha 🐲🏳️‍⚧️Feb 12
@jesse @totalclaireity Exactly! Why should I trust someone with my messages, when they can't trust me in the first place?
Show threadFox Trenton 🎱Feb 12

@totalclaireity
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPRouBvgFE

How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

YouTube
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 12

@sintrenton

Thanks for this!

I’ve been seeing this posted the last few days and keep forgetting to watch it. Going to try and get to it today.

Show threadEvan Feb 12

@totalclaireity this will sound bad, but this never even occurred to me. I share peoples messages with others all the time. I learned a poor sense of boundaries growing up and I've been surrounded by people who think anything they heard and weren't told to keep secret, is fair game to tell whoever they want.

I started unlearning this mindset when my college roommate told me explicitly that it was none of my business why she was leaving or where she was going and that I needed to stop asking about it just to make conversation. That's how bad it was.
Obviously I still have a ways to go!

Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 12

@mllsc

We all have areas in our lives that can be improved.

The first step is identifying those areas and recognizing our behaviours.

The next is taking steps and actions to change for the better.

And it won’t happen overnight, and we’ll often make mistakes, but if the goal is improvement and change and we keep trying to improve and change our behaviour for the better, that’s how we build a better world ❤️

Show threadCammyDeerFeb 15
@totalclaireity
Occasionally I'm curious what he's saying to someone. Occasionally he's curious what I'm saying to someone. Thankfully we are adults with working mouths, so the problem generally solves itself.
Show threadsnowyfoxFeb 11
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Show threadAndrocatFeb 11

@totalclaireity

Yes!!!

Everything you do can be an attack vendor.

Rich people know this. Heads of state know this (although they all make exceptions for that nice pedophile).

Show threadmaya_b 🇨🇦Feb 11

@totalclaireity

always worth remember you're not obliged to share anything with anyone.

"what do you have to hide?"
"nothing. I just don't have anything I want to share"

Show thread✨ Luna! <3 ✨  Feb 11
@totalclaireity i shall reference this

https://possum.city/notes/aij46aguesyv03wd
✨ Luna! <3 ✨ :verifiedtrans: :verifiedpansexual: (@sushimcpe)

My software will never include age verification. Blocked? Feel free to use TOR, or any VPN of your choosing. Feel free to use any proxy and any access point you'd like. No strings attached. PRIVACY FIRST!

Possum City
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 11

@sushimcpe

Awesome!

Show threadSnapai Feb 11
@totalclaireity
It wasnt until I heard "privacy is a matter of dignity" that I understood what rubbed me wrong about making it about guilt and innocence.
Show threadSpace HoboFeb 11
@totalclaireity Every time someone poses that simplistic little riddle, I always ask back "So do you always leave the door open when you use the toilet?"
Show threadcalcifer Feb 11
@totalclaireity @JenJen PREACH. as a friend of mine is fond of saying “I’m not hiding it, it’s just none of your fucking business”. It’s absolutely about the right to control who has access to what in your life.
Show threadChina.Gamer.Guy 神州电玩客Feb 13

@calcifer
I often wonder what a world we'd live in if the 4th Amendment was as popular as the 2nd.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects..."

@totalclaireity @JenJen

Show threadFluffy Kitty CatFeb 11
@totalclaireity "the Nazis want to kill me for who I was born as" is the answer to that question. Either that or "I'm standing up for the people the Nazis are targeting"
Show thread🩷 Stella Feb 12
@totalclaireity just like you should be respected if you don’t want people to hear you cry or hear you sing, your phone also shouldn’t hear it
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 12

@twinkle

💯

My phone should only listen when I tell it to listen

Show threadThee Mighty Peculia 🍄Feb 12
@totalclaireity Thank you!
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 12

@lydialurch

You’re welcome! : )

Show threadsylvieFeb 12
@totalclaireity obviously you tell them to undress because they have nothing to hide
Show threadPedestrianError  Feb 12
@totalclaireity And if a corporation poisons you and you sue them because there's a strong correlation between the pollutant they exposed you to and the cancer you developed, they absolutely will buy data about what you had for breakfast and try to use that as proof the cancer was actually all your fault.
Show threadAral BalkanFeb 12
@totalclaireity Imagine sitting at the same table as the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy and trying to explain this very simple fact to him while he tries to make excuses for privacy violations by the Chinese government based on “cultural differences.” There are reasons why we’re fucked…
Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 13

@aral

Ah yes where would we be in life without concessions and excuses for human rights violations 🙄

Show threadLuna Ruby Artemis 💛🤍💜🖤Feb 12
@totalclaireity I remember reading it on the Internet.
"An honest man covers their body with clothes. Not because witnessing their nudity causes harm to them. But because there's modesty, and there's ritual. An honest man has lots to hide."
Show threadGeoff CoffeyFeb 13
@totalclaireity @RavynWitch Girl. “Everything”. This is the best essay I’ve ever seen on the topic. Everything.
Show threadBelle (she/her)Feb 13
@gwcoffey @totalclaireity yes!!! Everything is our lives to choose what we share and don’t share and who we share it with!
Show threadGeoff CoffeyFeb 13
@RavynWitch @totalclaireity What I share is an invitation. And what you share is a gift. There’s no taking.
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Feb 13

@totalclaireity Exactly.

“Oh but so many of those things are harmless!” No.

There's any number of factors that could make someone the target of a person wishing to do harm to them. Race, gender, nationality, sexuality, political views… those are just the obvious ones. Even things like the sports team you support, or whether or not you're vegan, are controversial to some.

Yeah, I've got things to hide: things that could make me the target of hate crime, and that could be anything and everything.

Show threadHigh intensity squirrel 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 13

@TerrorBite

And at the end of the day, regardless of all that, ultimately it’s none of your business unless I choose to share it.

But I feel like people who don’t understand that are the same sorts that get upset about when you put any kind of boundary in place and ask them to respect that…

Show threadTinfoil 2.0 😱Feb 13
@totalclaireity https://mastodon.online/@tfoil2/113629526606438552
Show threadgkrnoursFeb 14
@totalclaireity and even if somehow having a private life was so strange, most people have a payment card number to keep private
Show threadMarcos DioneFeb 17

@totalclaireity my mother was part of a generation in the country I was born that was persecuted for their political views. She in particular was "disappeared" for a couple of weeks, and in prison for a total of 45 days, back in '76. Once at a lunch with her friends from that era, they reminisced for a while about their longer imprisonment periods.

And yet, another time when I tried to explain the power of BigTech, that's what she said: "I have nothing to hide". She never understood the danger.

Show threadsnowhuoueFeb 18
@totalclaireity amen.