Laura Kalbag

Privacy’s not an abstraction

Written by Chris Gilliard on Fast Company.

“Privacy for marginalized populations has never been, and will never be an abstract. Being surveilled, whether by private actors, or the state, is often the gateway to very tangible harms–violence in the form of police brutality, incarceration, or deportation. And there can be more subliminal, insidious impacts, too.”

“The idea that surveillance would be used as an assignment on those with no options for consent speaks to how broken our ideas about consent have become, trivializing what to many people is a life and death matter of their lived existence.”

Read ‘Privacy’s not an abstraction’ on the Fast Company site.

Tagged with: privacy, consent, chilling effects.