Is the "right to privacy" even a thing?

[danielmeyer]

@jander

…nothing you do online is ever truly private…let us also be about teaching one another to fear God, who sees all. Nothing is hidden that will not be exposed.

And I am not just talking about our wicked internet usage. I am also talking about fearing God in our righteous use of the internet. If our internet history is one day used by wicked men to expose us as Christians, may we rejoice in that name.

Thanks for this, Jason. It’s a good reminder.

Love,

[tesseract (Tyler)]

@jander

VPN providers are the Han Solo’s that you hire to smuggle you off of Tatooine while avoiding Imperial entanglements,

VPNs that are run by a company, I think, can just as easily get the old knock on the door from the man.

Brave has a Tor mode which is pretty good, but I think you’re right.

[jander (Jason Andersen)]

@tesseract

VPNs that are run by a company, I think, can just as easily get the old knock on the door from the man.

“Even I get boarded sometimes. You think I had a choice?”

[jtbayly (Joseph Bayly)]

@jander

one has to ask if it would really in Apple’s interest to upset the applecart (pun intended) by undermining established norms in how big tech and ISP’s perform data collection, ad tracking, content caching, direct peering to content providers, etc.

Apple has demonstrated their willingness to do this over the last year, so I think the answer is clear. Why is it in their interest? Because they saw the backlash against data collection and lack of privacy forming, and they were in a particularly good place to capitalize on that since they weren’t very dependent on ad dollars, unlike FB and Google.

@jander

You simply can’t be both the heroic scoundrel and the respectable businessman at the same time.

Apple has also demonstrated their willingness to make design decisions that the FBI hates. Some influential elements of the tech world have always been willing to fight the government on encryption. I see Apple in a similar place at this point. I’m not denying that they will always give what they can give when it is requested, of course. And they haven’t gone as far as they could (and should) in my mind. For example, with iCloud backups not being encrypted, your end-to-end encrypted iMessages are still accessible to Apple if either you or the people you converse with are using iCloud. This, I think, was a concession to the FBI.