Personal and Online Privacy: If you have nothing to hide, why do you care?
We’ve all heard the insulting, tyrannical cliché about privacy: If you have nothing to hide, why do you care? The comeback, if not that it would fall on deaf ears, should be this: Because I value...
View ArticleThe Cure For Surveillance Capitalism
Now that people are gaining some understanding of Surveillance Capitalism, I’d like to explain how we can – and can’t – protect ourselves from it. Surveillance Capitalism functions on volume: The more...
View ArticlePaul Rosenberg on RT: Online Surveillance in the US
You will probably be quite familiar with the idea that the government has a nasty habit of spying on Americans who haven’t done anything wrong. Until recently, most of us have been called kooks,...
View ArticleThe Other (Worse) Side of the PRISM Scandal
The fallout from the PRISM scandal has reached Stage Two, where faces in front of television cameras promote memorable slogans to give people reasons to accept their abuse and to pretend that...
View ArticleDigital Diversification: How to Do It
Thank God for Edward Snowden. I used to warn people about surveillance and the death of privacy, but most of them found it hard to believe me; it was just too far out of the mainstream. Not so anymore....
View ArticleThe NSA’s Secret War Against Online Privacy Seekers
If you haven’t seen this yet, I’m sorry to drop it on you: On September 5th, Glenn Greenwald and others revealed the extent of the NSA’s destruction of privacy – not just the privacy of people who are...
View ArticleROSC 4: The Sanitarium
When I walked into our latest TCM lunch, I saw a few new members, two of whom were young women. That made me feel good, because there had been a flaw in most 20th century liberty movements, in that...
View ArticleFarber’s First Essay
In the first editions of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, I included several essays that I cared a great deal about. In the second edition (now available), I took them back out. I feel that a novel is best...
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