Tag: Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights

Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment

In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has been completely eliminated for our children, just because they use digital tools instead of analog, and the people interpreting the laws are saying that privacy only applies to the old, analog … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (21/21): Conclusion, privacy has been all but eliminated from the digital environment”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever

Slack has just updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the very idea that their bosses would open packages and read personal messages that were addressed to them. For our digital children, it’s another shrugworthy part … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms

The dystopic stories of the 1950s said the government would install cameras in our homes, with the government listening in and watching us at all times. Those stories were all wrong, for we installed the cameras ourselves. In the analog world of our parents, it was taken for completely granted that the government would not … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home

Our parents, at least in the Western world, had a right to hold private conversations face-to-face, whether out in public or in the sanctity of their home. This is all but gone for our digital children. Not long ago, it was the thing of horror books and movies that there would actually be widespread surveillance … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries

For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence of a crime. Objects such as these had protection over and above the constitutional privacy safeguards. For our digital children, however, the equivalent diaries and letters aren’t even considered worthy of … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (16/21): Our children’s privacy and Data Retention

In the analog world of our parents, it was absolutely unthinkable that the government would demand to know every footstep you took, every phonecall you made, and every message you wrote, just as a routine matter. For our digital children, government officials keep insisting on this as though it were perfectly reasonable, because terrorism, and … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (16/21): Our children’s privacy and Data Retention”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis

At worst, our analog parents could be prevented from meeting each other. Our digital children are prevented from talking about particular subjects, once the conversation is already happening. This is a horrifying development. When our digital children are posting a link to The Pirate Bay somewhere on Facebook, a small window sometimes pops up saying … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (15/21): Our digital children’s conversations are muted on a per-topic basis”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and catalogued

Our analog parents’ dating preferences were considered a most private of matters. For our digital children, their dating preferences is a wholesale harvesting opportunity for marketing purposes. How did this terrifying shift come to be? I believe the first big harvester of dating preferences was the innocent-looking site hotornot.com 18 years ago, a site that … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and catalogued”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy

We’ve seen how our digital children’s privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse: our digital children’s privacy is also violated by tracking what they don’t buy — either actively decline or just plain walk away from. Amazon just … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy”

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Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded

In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact that we’re tracked when using cash today, too. Few people pay attention to the little sign on the revolving door on Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It says that … Continue reading “Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded”

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