People love the shiny new thing, convenience over privacy every time.

That the average person sees the state as a father to be trusted instead of an intruder to be mistrusted. In other words, people don’t study history 😥

Turn key totalitarianism will be bought and paid for by its eventual victims willingly

Tech advanced so fast in our lives that most don’t understand that they should care about their privacy. It’s up to those who do understand to build the systems that respect personal sovereignty. Everyone has their limit If you build it they will come Lower your time-preference

Either most people are not aware of privacy issues or they simply don't care (until it's too late). I've got a few German friends (from the former East German prison state) who either shy away from social media or at least use fake names/birthdays/etc, prefer cash and limit their use of "smart" dev...

We need to get on an island, and fast!

Does it really make a difference when everyone carries a smart phone and has a wireless router in the house? Given the French police recently activated some bullshit riot prevention laws to backdoor and activate phones microphones and cameras we know they have the capability. And WiFi signals can...

my grandma remember they been first family in village who has TV, so neighbours were coming to watch :-) similar story is about telephone line ... what I want to say is that technology is coming to our live but not all people understand how TV or phone lines works, what is behind. mostly they are ...

We can learn that most people don't care for privacy until it's too late.

Amazon Echo's use a RFM69HCW chip which share via radio frequency to other Echo's in the neighborhood and create a mesh network

Yeah that's what I thought too so I got myself a door camera from google instead.

We haven't hit peak surveillance tech yet 😞

Just had this happen: I was visiting a friend's house and was taken aback when his mother said, "Alexa, set timer for 25 minutes," as she worked on dinner in the kitchen. I explained the surveillance issues behind this tech and my friend said, "I know, but my mom has diabetes and it's really good fo...

To anyone who has a roku, try to turn off voice recording in settings. It doesn't let me. I unplug all my shit when I'm not avtively using it

may I have the link to the news story? I can't find it anymore