Here is a bit on privacy from Eric Hughes’s Cypherpunk’s Manifesto of 1993. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is […]
  • thesmokingman@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Currency transaction reports and suspicious transaction reports, do they not sound like something the Stasi would demand in communist East Germany?

    No. Not in the slightest. They’re a response to crimes of capitalism committed by capitalists governed by capitalists. If making sure everyone gets equity means people moving about 20% of the median American yearly salary have to be transparent, I’m okay with that.