privacy

Twitter Employees Are Paid to View Private Sex Messages – and Everything Else

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas publishes more undercover video of Twitter employees. This time, they reveal that users' privacy is a joke to them. Engineer Pranay Singh says all content, even if deleted by the user, is permanently stored on Twitter servers.This includes a vast amount of sexually explicit text and photos. Tweets and supposedly private, direct messages (DMs) are analyzed through a machine algorithm that creates a highly personal profile about you and sells it to advertisers who track you on the Internet with cookies.

Analog Equivalent Rights (9/21): When the government knows what news you read, in what order, and for how long

Privacy: Our analog parents had the ability to read news anonymously, however they wanted, wherever they wanted, and whenever they wanted. For our digital children, a government agent might as well be looking over their shoulder: the government knows what news sources they read, what articles, for how long, and in what order.

Analog Equivalent Rights (8/21): Using Third-Party Services Should Not Void Expectation of Privacy

Privacy: Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just because you’re using equipment that makes a third party aware of your circumstances, does that really nullify any expectation of privacy?

Analog Equivalent Rights (6/21): Everything you do, say, or think today will be used against you in the future

Privacy: “Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness of what you said or did has changed dramatically.” With the analog surveillance of our parents, everything was caught in the context of its time. The digital surveillance of our children saves everything for later use against them.

Edward Snowden just announced a new phone app to keep your life private

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Analog Equivalent Rights (4/21): Our children have lost the Privacy of Location

Privacy: In the analog world of our parents, as an ordinary citizen and not under surveillance because of being a suspect of a crime, it was taken for granted that you could walk around a city without authorities tracking you at the footstep level. Our children don’t have this right anymore in their digital world.