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  • Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”.
  • In response, people are “waking up” to privacy, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of secure messaging service Signal.
  • Here, she explores the drivers behind this shift and how it could impact the digital landscape.
    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 day ago

      There are two types of rights:

      • negative - government prevents others from violating it (you have it by default)
      • positive - government forces others to provide it (created by the government)

      Privacy and speech fall under the first, food and health care fall under the second. You have privacy by default and the government has to actively violate it, you don’t have food by default and the government has to actively provide it.