Privacy Is Over. We Must Fight Harder Than Ever To Protect Our Civil Liberties.
Privacy,Hong Kong,Technology,Civil Liberties,Freedom,Democracy,China,Civil Rights
Once upon a time, privacy was everyone's default setting. Imagine an era when most letters and ledgers existed only in a single hard copy, when long-distance communication was slow and unreliable, when unpickable locks existed and cameras didn't.
These are the conditions under which America's founding documents were written. It was far from a golden age, but there were undeniable upsides to a government that had neither the technology nor the resources to know what most people were up to most of the time.
Those days are done. Privacy is dead. We have killed it, you and I.
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