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Dystopian By Default: The Architecture of Surveillance
May 3, 202656 minS0
<p><p>“Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about controlling access to yourself.”</p></p><p>Bruce Schneier has spent decades thinking about digital security and the hidden systems that shape modern life, and he pulls no punches in his assessment: Surveillance is the default condition of digital life because politicians lack the will to limit corporate power in a data economy that rewards the ongoing extraction of our information.</p><p>We talk about why “nothing to hide” is a reductive way of thinking about privacy, why the real danger is the loss of control over our own...
