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The Decentralized Mind

Josh

The Case for Data Ownership: A Moral Imperative

Who owns your data? In an era where corporations profit from personal information, the fight for data ownership has never been more urgent. This article explores the philosophical, legal, and economic case for treating personal data as property, drawing from Kant, Locke, and Proudhon to argue for autonomy in the digital age.

#data#ethics#ai#philosophy#capitalism#surveillance#society#digital#rights#privacy#tech#decentralization#policy#civil#regulation#law#freedom#internet
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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

When Building in Public Means Breaking in Public

The hidden risks of walking the tightrope of no-code development

#ai#nocode#technology#building#startups#coding#security
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HIMULATION

abradeux

ATTAC{less} / a privacy Manifesto

McAfee’s statement, “We live in a system of permission,” encapsulates the current reality: Privacy is not ours by default, it’s granted or revoked by external powers.

#abradeux#pingpong#e2ee#privacy#decentralized#encryption#network#ping#p2p
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Touch Grass

María Paula from Touch Grass

Marked Safe?

Nobody's safe, and information is power, so read this if you want to learn how to protect your digital footprint.

#blockchain#security#lens#crypto
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papajams.eth

Farcaster's ZK Anons

The pseudonymous economy is being brought to fruition on decentalized social networks like farcaster where blockchain, AI, & cryptography are being leveraged by a developer rich community to reimagine their applications.

#anon#anonymous#privacy#blockchain#social#farcaster#ai#zk#zero-knowledge#zk-sync
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alp1n3.eth 🌲

EZPZ Complex Passphrases with Bitwarden

There's an uber-easy way to generate what I think are arguably great passphrases within Bitwarden that are actually easy for users to type out if they need to manually enter them, opposed to the random character generated slop that ends up with normal users writing it down on a sticky note and putting inside of their desk drawer (please don't do that). I'll keep this short and sweet. Navigate into the app for the password manager Bitwarden and select the "+" button at the bottom to add a new ...

#password#passphrase#bitwarden#security
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Do you trust your government?

This, it turns out, is an important question, because there's a strong correlation between trust in government and overall prosperity (the above chart is via NZZ). The extreme examples of distrust are somewhat intuitive. If, for example, you don't believe that your government will uphold property rights, why would you ever want to risk investing in property? But it can be even more subtle and insidious:Trust is central to both stability and development. If citizens have trust in the...

#democracy#direct-democracy#economics#gdp-per-capita#government-trust#news#nobel-prize-in-economics#nzz#oecd-countries#politics#security#trust
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HIMULATION

abradeux

Fantasmas in a FIATocracy

“Confiscation all comes down to this: the government makes the rules, changes the rules, and enforces the rules. Though it lacks the moral right, it can create legal authority.Though it lacks the constitutional empowerment, it can turn a blind eye to the Constitution…The Constitution did not stop the government from taking people’s gold in 1933.”Some historical context: The Eurodollar SystemThe Eurodollar system emerged as a workaround to the limitations of the Bretton Woods monetary system e...

#abradeux#himulation#fantasma#antibank#debanked#money#eurodollar#cryptocurrency#asset protection#privacy
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The Blockchain Experience

meta-david

The Blockchain Experience New Episode Alert: Uphold

! In this can't-miss episode of The Blockchain Experience, I chat with Robin O'Connell, CEO of Uphold's Enterprise division, about how they're transforming how we trade and manage assets across crypto, fiat, and even precious metals like gold! Why tune in:"Anything to Anything" Trading: Learn how Uphold enables seamless trading between assets in seconds, no intermediaries needed!Business & Enterprise Insights: Discover how Uphold is helping companies make cross-border payments eas...

#compliance#precious metals#security#uphold#topper#onchain#blockchain#the blockchain experience#farcaster#warpcast#cryptocurrency#crypto
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Anthenor

Anthenor

Messaging platforms should benefit from a “fair use” and “privacy” law

The sudden arrest of Telegram Messenger CEO, Pavel Durov, raises an important debate around freedom of speech and the need to adapt our l...

#telegram#messaging#fair use#free speech#privacy
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6-to-6

rushil

Standards Of A Con Artist

For those worried that AI will steal our jobs, let me put your mind at ease: you can always be a thief.

#art#ai#tutorial#social#security
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Punks In Space

Hey friends I don't know about you, but during my formative years, I went through a particularly rebellious phase. I experimented with brightly color...

#web3#solarpunk#cryptocurrency#public goods#privacy
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Out of Office

MASQ Browser: dApps storeThis issue is brought to you with the support of MASQ, the dMeshVPN, browser, dAppStore, protocol, and earning ecosystem tha...

#web3#nft#social#privacy#cryptocurrency
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Revisionist History

This issue is brought to you with the support of Skiff, the privacy-first productivity suite. Unfortunately, Skiff was purchased by Notion and has be...

#cryptocurrency#privacy#ai#stablecoins
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Anxious urbanism

One of the first things that I noticed when I visited Rio de Janeiro a few years ago was the clear fixation on safety and security. There are gates and cameras everywhere. And the guidance you tend to receive from the locals usually resolves around how to stay safe. Don't wander around at night. Be careful when you take out your phone. Be mindful of certain areas. You know, those sorts of things. Of course, you never really know how dangerous a city is because it's one of those thin...

#book-review#crime#ed-charlton#johannesburg#london-school-of-economics#panic-city#rio-de-janeiro#safety#security#urbanism
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Albert Wenger

Privacy, Power and the Commons

Private property has become so prevalent in the world that we rarely think about the commons. Most people consider the subway as a public good, it is part of “public transport” after all. But they are unlikely to recognize the space on the subway as a common, the way a community would previously have thought about a shared pasture. The COVID19 crisis is a stark reminder that commons are all around us: A single infected subway rider not wearing a mask could infect dozens of people. How is that...

#covid19#privacy#power#commons
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Safety and security per capita

This is a city metric I haven't seen before. City Observatory recently looked at the number of police officers (public) and security guards (private) per capita across American cities. They also ask a bunch of interesting questions. Why do some cities have far fewer police officers? Is high security an indicator for "anti-social capital?" (Social norms aren't encouraging people to behave.) And do some cities simply have more cops because it is perceived to be necessary? Here is what...

#city-observatory#joe-cortright#miami#police#safety#security#urbanism
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Albert Wenger

Coronavirus: Privacy and Democracy

I have written and spoken a lot about how technological progress is incompatible with privacy. One example I have used is someone bioengineering a virus in their basement. It turns out a much simpler example is what we are seeing today: a new virus that’s spreading. We cannot both have fast, easy international travel and also have privacy of travelers. If you travel and later come down with the coronavirus, we need to know where you went and who else may have been exposed. At a minimum societ...

#privacy#democracy#progress#coronavirus#covid19
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Albert Wenger

World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Finish)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post wraps up the prior discussion of why as part of increasing informational freedom we should embrace a post privacy world. —- So we can’t really protect privacy without handing control of technology into the hands of a few and conversely decentralized innovation requires reduced privacy. What should we do? The answer, I think, is to embrace a post-privacy world. We should work to protect people and their f...

#world after capital#privacy
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Albert Wenger

World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Cont’d)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you can find some of the same material in my Blockstack Berlin presentation). —- So why do I keep asserting the impossibility of assuring privacy? Don’t we have encryption? Encryption is great for securing information in transit and at rest, but there are problems that encryp...

#world after capital#privacy
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