@Em0nM4stodon If you or your followers know of any recent films that address privacy rights in a meaningful way, we would love to know about them.

*Can be documentary or narrative films, and can be in development / pre-release.

#Privacy #AskFedi #Movies

@Em0nM4stodon completely agree! I was talking to a friend about responding to people who say "well I have nothing to hide."

It's not about hiding something bad, it's about protecting our universal right to not have the government and for profit businesses have their hands in everything we do.

@Em0nM4stodon Unfortunately, we're in a time frame where most fundamental needs, like clean air, water, enough food and affordable shelter, are at a similar pace of collapse.

Mass extinctions are built on these rare overlaps in collapsing ecosystems. Tech bros are successfully cornering the market on sustainability.

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Porque o capitalismo forjou uma sociedade em que as pessoas são individualistas. E a maioria de nós já aceitou o fato de que não temos privacidade real, que nossas senhas estão nas mãos de bandidos, que de vez em quando estranhos vão fazer compras usando nossos cartões, que talvez tenhamos fotos íntimas (reais ou montadas) em fóruns obscuros. O que falta é pensar de forma coletiva, sobre o poder que essas empresas têm sobre um povo inteiro, o que é muito diferente da soma de várias dessas consequências individuais.

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Please continue to share and deepen your thoughts here, and thank you.

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I just watched Black Mirror S3E01: Nosedive and it makes this point in a pretty dystopian way. Pretty good show, too.

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Ask anyone who lived in a ubiquitous surveillance state built around narcing on neighbors, friends, & family. It was terrible.

In East Germany, the Stasi had an intergenerational impact that crashed their economy & dropped the birth rate precipitously.

Peter Thiel & Elon Musk both spent some of their childhood in apartheid-era South Africa; ubiquitous surveillance state that used state police murder to maintain white supremacy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-worldview-of-the-afrikaner-diaspora-now-haunts-the-us/

The loss of privacy is slow until it is permanent.

By the time most people notice, the systems are already normal, legal, and hard to remove.

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“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”- James Madison, Constitutional Convention, June 29, 1787.

@Em0nM4stodon I am grateful to work in government digital service delivery where we advocate for individual data sovereignty whilst looking down the barrel of entshitification.

Incentives that airgap safety and privacy infrastructure dev from the messy business of participatory user experience research, are worth investigating.

With an art background, have you considered integrating data privacy experience (DPX?) into an art interpretive program informed by privacy activism?