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Aral Balkan

Hiding your face isn’t having privacy. Living in a society where you don’t have to hide your face is having privacy.

@aral Rhymes with a healthy, wealthy, pleasant society is one where the rich use public transport.

@aral But cloud-connected cameras are everywhere!

@astro @aral
that's the need for policies to remove them.

@astro @aral I'd be OK with cameras in numerous locations if they were sousveillance rather than surveillance cameras.

@aral My sense of what privacy is about echoes Martin Tisne: "Data rights should protect privacy, and should account for the fact that privacy is not a reactive right to shield oneself from society. It is about freedom to develop the self away from commerce and away from governmental control." technologyreview.com/2018/12/1

MIT Technology Review · It’s time for a Bill of Data RightsBy Martin Tisne

@aral Good to see you. Isn’t the world an awful mess? Hugs to you 🫂❤️🫂