No Place to Hide
We have signed up to levels of surveillance dictators could only dream about – and struggle to enforce. And we’ve done it freely, willingly, actually without noticing, in the name of connectivity and ‘sharing’.
Jeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
Most importantly, I’d like – in some small way – to encourage people to consider who they trust, how they should pay for the internet, and whether they are prepared to keep providing their own data, the totality of their online lives, to private companies – like an endless font, like an endlessly spouting oil well.
Damian Bradfield • The Trust Manifesto: What you Need to do to Create a Better Internet
Identity is one of our most fundamental human rights. Yet, in the age of surveillance, commodification and centralization, it is under threat. Edward Snowden said it best, "The one vulnerability being exploited across all systems is identity."
