The niche interest of privacy grows in proportion to state overreach.
The majority may not always take the convenience tradeoff… everyone acknowledges the surveillance problem, that is the first prerequisite to change.
I intend to invest only more capital & time into the technology & founders that can help preserve our human autonomy & privacy.
Very nicely put. Surveillance has become all too prevalent in today's world, with governments and corporations having seemingly no qualms about scooping up as much personal data as possible without regard for our basic liberties.
And while it may seem that there is little that can be done to push back against such excessive surveillance techniques, movements like cryptocurrency exist to challenge privacy infringing norms.
Aside from reinforcing attitudes surrounding privacy being a right wholly sacrificed within digital citizenship for the economical convenience or safety when someone else decides- thought directed absolutely by non-randomized entities who endlessly curtail individuals expressive branding hypercritical agencies acting prudently need reinvented.
There are dangers when states continuously invade the allowance of free cognition!
It represents an excellent opportunity for active investment thinking driven as a niche investment frontier on capability-space of libertarian economics - exerted through transparent infrastructure able screen out its adversary of state malware attacks if properly run with societal will in-mind.
Now is the time to support those individuals who are passionately pushing towards greater freedom and decentralization ideas; lest private control take over, setting transparent loss-suppression patterns identified scrutinizing both program developments & their electoral competitive platforms will dictate mood-shifts upon needed politics - let us direct collective action into a bold future nourished upon 'private communities instead' mentality!
I have spoken to many people in real life and even people in tech industries, such as programmers, don’t generally care about their privacy. Some people don’t realize the importance, but others are just simplifying accepting the narrative of “it’s impossible to use information technology without invading privacy”, especially programmers.
This is due to ignorance and lack of professionalism. Most information features we use daily don’t need my phone number or my face at the algorithmic level. Even for digital marketing and KYC, most data companies are tracking don’t end up be useful at all, yet it increases AWS bills companies have to pay.
The main stream software/internet industry, not to be sarcastic, stupid.
The problem is never algorithm. Sorting Nostr posts based on time stamp is also an algorithm. The anti algorithm narrative in Nostr community is also just ignorant of not stupid.
The key is to give least privilege or trust that any given algorithms need to run, no more.
And users should always be informed about their data usage.
GDPR is a very progressive legislation about this topic. But it is not that effective because traditional internet companies are not building on top of architectures that support privacy. It’s just an after thought.
Also, decentralization doesn’t mean privacy at all. Decentralization is about replication and availability, which implies content censorship resilience. We absolutely have decentralized non private systems.
Privacy is fundamentally about building cryptography into the core of the architecture and having zero trust, local verifiability.
I was in the privacy space for a long time. Sadly no one cares. I was able to raise money for privacy startups but it was a wasted effort. In the end no one will pay for it. Projects like nostr give me hope for more decentralized tools and a more private future
100% this. 100% privacy/freedom/decentralized maxi moving forward
