{"id":70853,"date":"2017-07-15T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/liberty-might-be-better-served-by-doing-away-with-privacy"},"modified":"2017-07-15T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T15:09:38","slug":"liberty-might-be-better-served-by-doing-away-with-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/liberty-might-be-better-served-by-doing-away-with-privacy","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Might Be Better Served by Doing Away with Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new article from Vice Motherboard on liberty and privacy. This is one of my most ambitious philosophical works yet: https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjx5y5\/liberty-mi\u2026th-privacy<\/a> #Libertarian<\/p>\n

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If tech is surveilling us constantly, we need the ability to use it to watch the watchers.<\/p>\n

Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, transhumanist, author of The Transhumanist Wager<\/i><\/a>, and a Libertarian <\/i> candidate<\/i><\/a> for California Governor.<\/i><\/p>\n

The constant onslaught of new technology is making our lives more public and trackable than ever, which understandably scares a lot of people. Part of the dilemma is how we interpret the right to privacy using centuries-old ideals handed down to us by our forbearers. I think the 21st century idea of privacy\u2014like so many other taken-for-granted concepts\u2014may need a revamp.<\/p>\n

When James Madison wrote the Fourth Amendment\u2014which helped legally establish US privacy ideals and protection from unreasonable search and seizure\u2014he surely wasn\u2019t imagining Elon Musk\u2019s neural lace, artificial intelligence, the internet, or virtual reality. Madison wanted to make sure government couldn\u2019t antagonize its citizens and overstep its governmental authority, as monarchies and the Church had done for centuries in Europe.<\/p>\n

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My new article from Vice Motherboard on liberty and privacy. This is one of my most ambitious philosophical works yet: https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjx5y5\/liberty-mi\u2026th-privacy #Libertarian If tech is surveilling us constantly, we need the ability to use it to watch the watchers. Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, transhumanist, author of The Transhumanist Wager, and a Libertarian candidate for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,418,6,1501,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}