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You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet | Tor.com - 0 views

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  • You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet
  • “Privacy” doesn’t mean that no one in the world knows about your business. It means that you get to choose who knows about your business.
  • Anyone who pays attention will see that kids do, in fact, care a whole lot about their privacy. They don’t want their parents to know what they’re saying to their friends. They don’t want their friends to see how they relate to their parents. They don’t want their teachers to know what they think of them. They don’t want their enemies to know about their fears and anxietie
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  • that kids will go to incredible lengths to protect their privacy
  • This changed the debate on privacy. All of a sudden, normal people, who don’t think much about privacy, started to think about privacy.
  • So kids spend a lot of time thinking about being private from parents, teachers and bullies, but totally overestimate how private they’ll be from future employers, their government, and police. And alas, by the time they figure it out, it’s too late.
  • You don’t have to choose between privacy and a social life. There are good privacy tools for using the net without having to surrender the intimate details of your personal life for future generations of data-miners.
  • The other good news is that you are digital natives, at least a little bit. If you start using computers when you’re a little kid, you’ll have a certain fluency with them that older people have to work harder to attain.
  • Here’s some opsec links to get you started:
  • Once you’ve mastered that stuff, start to think about your phone. Android phones are much, much easier to secure than Apple’s iPhones
  • This stuff is a moving target, and it’s not always easy. But it’s an amazing mental exercise—thinking through all the ways that your Internet use can compromise you.
  • You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet
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