So I was browsing audiobooks to download when I came accross the title you see in the screenshot. The title reads:
Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity - Ben Malisow
Stopped me mid scroll and had to read the description to see if I understood the title correctly. Sure as shit it really is a book defending the trend of diminishing privacy and justifies the mining of your data.
Against my better judgment I downloaded the tor file and plan on listening to it today. Ill try and edit this post at the end of the day with what the book was like or if I couldn't finish it cuz of how ridiculous it is.
To save the click to read the description from the screenshot:
Discover why privacy is a counterproductive, if not obsolete, concept in this startling new book
It’s only a matter of time - the modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating because of technological advancement and social engagement. Whether we like it or not, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. ‘Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity’ takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable.
Security expert and author Ben Malisow systematically dismantles common notions of privacy and explains how most arguments in favor of increased privacy are wrong; privacy in our personal lives leaves us more susceptible to being bullied or blackmailed; governmental and military privacy leads to an imbalance of power between citizen and state; and military supremacy based on privacy is an obsolete concept.
Perfect for anyone interested in the currently raging debates about governmental, institutional, corporate, and personal privacy, and the proper balance between the public and the private, Exposed also belongs on the shelves of security practitioners and policymakers everywhere.
It also conveniently overlooks the massive issue of privacy in the first place.
It's not a bad thing to live in a world where you can't be blackmailed because everyone already knows everything about you.
It could be theoretically utopian to live in a world where privacy is not an issue.
The gigantic fucking pink dragon in the room is that the people who have the power over the information that is made public, want to use it to make money off of you in every single facet of your life.
If they could strip mine your grandmother for the calcium in her bones, and make a penny off of it, (that is, a penny more than her current remaining economic index of output into the economy) her ass would be tossed into the fucking meat grinder.
When there is some sort of ruling body that cares more about the happiness of every single person on the planet more than they care about making money or having power, and those are the only people that have access to your personal data, then yes.
But right now, people are people, and every person is evil to some degree, there's no value for you or me in giving them unfettered access to every aspect of our existence.
We are not robots. We are not automatons. We are not rational. We are not reliable. We are not repeatable. We are not resources to be exploited. We are not cogs in machines. We are not grist for the mill.
We are human fucking beings with the exact same intrinsic value and worth to our very existence as every other living human being on this planet, regardless of every other possible situation that exists.
To protect our intrinsic value, we must have privacy and autonomy. And we cannot have autonomy without privacy, and we cannot have privacy without autonomy.
Well said.