Privacy and Surveillance

Comments primarily share links to essays, blogs, and talks by Bruce Schneier, Cory Doctorow, and others on themes like surveillance capitalism, loss of computer ownership, propaganda, and the transparent society.

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nbp234 Nov 28, 2018 View on HN

Link to discussion on Bruce Schneier's blog: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/11/propaganda_an...

zk108 Apr 3, 2024 View on HN

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/ross-anderson...

UncleSlacky Oct 28, 2022 View on HN

Relevant commentary from Cory Doctorow:https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/

chrisbolt May 9, 2023 View on HN

This recent article by Cory Doctorow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863876

louwrentius Dec 1, 2020 View on HN

That's funny, Bruce Schneier has written something on that topic.https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2019/02/theres_no_g...

johnnybegoode Jun 9, 2013 View on HN

Also read (and upvote!) this brilliant piece by the creator of @_nothingtohide: http://danielsieradski.com/nothing-to-hide/14572HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5848168

djsumdog Oct 22, 2016 View on HN

Are you talking about this Newsweek article?http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...

JdeBP Sep 29, 2016 View on HN

Andrew Ayer's own article on the subject is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600413

AareyBaba Jun 29, 2019 View on HN

Andrew Blum's Ted talk https://youtu.be/XE_FPEFpHt4?t=292

timonovici Jan 2, 2019 View on HN

https://youtu.be/GAXLHM-1Psk?t=945 - I think this commentary by Maciej Ceglowski rings true here.