Privacy
The right to control your own data, identity, and attention — not just secrecy, but the condition for autonomy and self-determination.
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- Concepts
Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff's framework: a new economic logic where human experience is mined as raw material for behavioral prediction and modification.
- People
Edward Snowden
Former NSA contractor who exposed mass surveillance programs. Author of "Permanent Record" and subject of "CitizenFour."
- Software & Tools
Tor Browser
Anonymity network and browser that routes traffic through volunteer-operated servers to protect identity and location.
- Software & Tools
Proton
Swiss-based encrypted email, VPN, calendar and storage suite — privacy by design with end-to-end encryption.
- Concepts
End-to-End Encryption
A communication paradigm where only the communicating parties can read the messages — no intermediary, including the service provider, can access plaintext. The single most important property for digital autonomy.
- Concepts
Data Minimization
The privacy principle of collecting and retaining only the minimum data necessary — the opposite of Big Tech's hoard-everything paradigm. Less data collected means less data to breach, misuse, or subpoena.
- Concepts
Censorship & Circumvention
Internet censorship — from DNS poisoning to full-scale firewalls — and the tools and protocols that circumvent it: VPNs, Tor, domain fronting, and encrypted DNS.
- Concepts
Data Removal
The right to have your personal data deleted — from data brokers, people-search sites, and corporate databases. GDPR's "right to erasure" made it law; services like EasyOptOuts and data broker opt-outs make it practical.
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