Privacy is very important to achieve freedom

I have always argued that in medieval times there was much more freedom than today.

In medieval times there was no census of people, surely the state did not even know you existed, tax collection was difficult and many territories were unknown.

Now we are all mapped and inventoried. They know everything about you, there is nothing more enslaved than the national identity card. They have access to your bank accounts, they can seize them and all your assets whenever they want. And on top of that, you have microphones and cameras at home that allow them to know everything you do, say and think.

This is the key reason why the world is worse today than yesterday and tomorrow will be worse than today.

In the past there was privacy due to lack of information which gave us a lot of freedom, now we have zero privacy which gives us zero freedom.

In this dystopian world we can only aspire to digital privacy or go live in the forest and give up everything.

I have always argued that in medieval times there was much more freedom than today.

In medieval times there was no census of people, surely the king did not even know you existed, tax collection was difficult and many territories were unknown.

Now we are all mapped and inventoried. They know everything about you, there is nothing more enslaved than the national identity card. They have access to your bank accounts, they can seize them and all your assets whenever they want. And on top of that, you have microphones and cameras at home that allow them to know everything you do, say and think.

This is the key reason why the world is worse today than yesterday and tomorrow will be worse than today.

In the past there was privacy due to lack of information which gave us a lot of freedom, now we have zero privacy which gives us zero freedom.

In this dystopian world we can only aspire to digital privacy or go live in the forest and give up everything.