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re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

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Privacy, surveillance & cybercrimeTech industry & business models

What it is

Aral Balkan's re:publica 2015 talk argues that people are the product of surveillance-based business models. It makes an ethical case against data monopolies and for privacy as a human right.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a forceful statement of the privacy case, though some commenters found its tone elitist and politically charged.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Really one of the best talks I've seen on the topic.”

    Overview of internet state from a pro-privacy, human rights perspective.

    rashkov, 2015-05 · Strong recommendation · in “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”

  2. “All in all, this is a great talk, I highly recommend you watch from start.”

    Critique of privacy on Facebook as charade.

    mashedvikings, 2018-03 · Strong recommendation · in “It’s Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find”

  3. “Ethical case for avoiding data monopolies.”

    yuvadam, 2015-09 · Recommendation · in “Is it futile to un-Google?”

  4. “has an excellent further discussion of this problem beyond just Gmail”

    Further discussion of the problem beyond Gmail.

    dredmorbius, 2015-09 · Recommendation · in “Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)”

  5. “Aral Balkan explains this better than I ever could”

    Explains why data-collecting companies are not trustworthy.

    maqp, 2020-02 · Recommendation · in “Privacy-focused messenger Signal is ready to go mainstream and take on WhatsApp”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: privacy, surveillance, data monopolies, human rights, big tech

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