> ...and other government bodies are happy to help if you can suggest how.
Ah, you mean like the US punishing the company that leaked one out of every two social security numbers of its citizens? Or China, a country worldly-known for the Great Firewall? Or Russia, in which you either hand out data about your customers to the government, or your business fails?
I mean, the EU's actually giving a shit about their citizens' privacy, but they are pretty lonely in that fight. My country (bordering EU) doesn't give a shit, and neither does Serbia, a country that's supposed to join the EU in the next decade (yeah, I know, wishful thinking).
Even if you live in a so-called democracy, chances are that you can make exactly 0 effect. And there are all sorts of other problems which have much higher priority. FFS, I can't run to be a president of my own country. It's in our constitution that you have to declare yourself as a member of one out of three ethnicities just to be eligible to run. The country lost three cases in the European Court of Human Rights because of this and similar fuckups in our constitution, oldest of which will be a decade old next year, and our constitution is still unchanged.
I truly do care about my own privacy and about my citizen's privacy. Yet, if I decided to advocate for certain things inside my own country to make it better, I would have at least three problems much higher in my agenda than online privacy.
You have to be strategic if your country doesn't care, but the first step is to create the intellectual edifice activists in the future will lean against. Also even as someone not in your country, I would still enjoy reading any writing on this.
Ah, you mean like the US punishing the company that leaked one out of every two social security numbers of its citizens? Or China, a country worldly-known for the Great Firewall? Or Russia, in which you either hand out data about your customers to the government, or your business fails?
I mean, the EU's actually giving a shit about their citizens' privacy, but they are pretty lonely in that fight. My country (bordering EU) doesn't give a shit, and neither does Serbia, a country that's supposed to join the EU in the next decade (yeah, I know, wishful thinking).
Even if you live in a so-called democracy, chances are that you can make exactly 0 effect. And there are all sorts of other problems which have much higher priority. FFS, I can't run to be a president of my own country. It's in our constitution that you have to declare yourself as a member of one out of three ethnicities just to be eligible to run. The country lost three cases in the European Court of Human Rights because of this and similar fuckups in our constitution, oldest of which will be a decade old next year, and our constitution is still unchanged.
I truly do care about my own privacy and about my citizen's privacy. Yet, if I decided to advocate for certain things inside my own country to make it better, I would have at least three problems much higher in my agenda than online privacy.