In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to…
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Analog Equivalent Rights (11/21): Our parents used anonymous cash
The anonymous cash of our analog parents is fast disappearing, and in its wake comes trackable and permissioned debit cards to our children. While…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (10/21): Analog journalism was protected; digital journalism isn’t
In the analog world of our parents, leaks to the press were heavily protected in both ends – both for the leaker and for…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (9/21): When the government knows what news you read, in what order, and for how long
Our analog parents had the ability to read news anonymously, however they wanted, wherever they wanted, and whenever they wanted. For our digital children,…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (8/21): Using Third-Party Services Should Not Void Expectation of Privacy
Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (7/21): Analog Libraries Were Private Searches for Information
When our analog parents searched for information, that activity took place in libraries, and that was one of the most safeguarded privacies of all….
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (6/21): Everything you do, say, or think today will be used against you in the future
“Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (5/21): Where did Freedom of Assembly go?
Our analog parents had the right to meet whomever they liked, wherever they liked, and discuss whatever they liked, without the government knowing. Our…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (4/21): Our children have lost the Privacy of Location
In the analog world of our parents, as an ordinary citizen and not under surveillance because of being a suspect of a crime, it…
Read MoreAnalog Equivalent Rights (3/21): Posting an Anonymous Public Message
The liberties of our parents are not being inherited by our children – they are being lost wholesale in the transition to digital. Today,…
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