{"id":73040,"date":"2017-10-05T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/transparency-and-privacy-what-we-need-want-and-do-not-understand"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:40:28","slug":"transparency-and-privacy-what-we-need-want-and-do-not-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/transparency-and-privacy-what-we-need-want-and-do-not-understand","title":{"rendered":"Transparency and Privacy: what we need, want and do not understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transparency-and-privacy-what-we-need-want-and-do-not-understand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Brin: \u201cOur midweek posting resumes the ongoing saga of transparency and freedom, and how (surprise?) each year\u2019s declared \u201csecure\u201d system gets stripped bare, in the next. Now it\u2019s Yahoo and Equifax and Billions of records. Millions of sincere people can see an Orwellian nightmare looming. Yet, the common reflex is to call for more shadows and walls! For us to HIDE from elites! It won\u2019t work. It cannot work. It will never work. But there is an alternative. The very same trick that got us our freedom and wealth, in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not preserve freedom by <i>hiding.<\/i> Nor will it ever be possible to conceal info from elites. Moreover, that is not how we got the freedom that we already have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will remain free by aggressively applying these tools upon all elites. It is the only way we ever got freedom and it is the only way we can retain it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The reason why people will always have a hard time believing in the idea of reciprocity in transparency is that it that knowing the elite\u2019s misbehavior is completely useless unless you have some way to punish them. Or to put it in this little dialogue: Elite: I can know everything about you, peon, including your treasonous thoughts. Peon: I also know everything about you, including your treasonous actions. Elite: That\u2019s cute. I also have a death squad. What you gonna do about it, insect? Peon: Oh\u2026 Forgot about the death squad. Without some way for mister peon to counter act the traditional strengths of elites, ie: money, power, lackeys, brute force, he is going to be very reticent to give up his one advantage of stealth.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/transparency-and-privacy-what-we-need.html\">https:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/transparency-and-priv...-need.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brin: \u201cOur midweek posting resumes the ongoing saga of transparency and freedom, and how (surprise?) each year\u2019s declared \u201csecure\u201d system gets stripped bare, in the next. Now it\u2019s Yahoo and Equifax and Billions of records. Millions of sincere people can see an Orwellian nightmare looming. Yet, the common reflex is to call for more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73057,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73040\/revisions\/73057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}