Quote from: thejaytiesto on May 09, 2015, 06:23:32 PM

Quote from: celestio on May 09, 2015, 06:02:26 PM

Privacy/anonymity is the only cure for the rampant destruction of individual rights that's happening throughout the world as spying tech advances(Hello nsa, google etc...) both in economic and social matters.

Im all for privacy and anonymity, but there's always a downside. Who would pay for the welfare for the people that really need it (because some do really need it). If nothing is public anymore, how in hell would that be deal with? I don't see it would work in a 100% anonymous individual society.

Oh I don't mean a "100% anonymous individual society". I mean where your individual economic and social activities are by default private/not being spied on. Currently in this society, the "default" is transparency, where everything is transparent and in order to preserve your privacy, you have to take measures of your own, It should/needs to be the other way around. And that's becoming a very serious issue, our very phone calls, emails, google searches, and more are spied on, not to mention our economic purchases through credit cards, banks, etc.

Hell, the NSA even implanted software in the Windows operating system to monitor computers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html?_r=0
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/15/262650392/nsa-reportedly-has-surveillance-software-on-100-000-computers