The Macroeconomics Of Privacy and Dignity
summary
Argues that privacy is not just individual secrecy but privacy equals agency over what you share, and that language shapes collective action so society needs a macro vocabulary for privacy. Cites concrete surprising claim that phone numbers are more durable identifiers than names for most people outside the bottom 10%, and points to aggregated tracking and deanonymization as harms that accumulate. Proposes treating privacy as a collective public good, learning from macroeconomics and pollution advocacy, and building tools and norms (e.g. Matrix-style systems) to encode dignity.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:07Defining privacy and dignity
- 3:10Language shapes collective action
- 7:03Macroeconomic perspective on privacy
- 10:11Cultural understanding of privacy
- 12:57Surveillance and societal impact
- 14:19Aspiring to a privacy-preserving society
- 15:47Collective privacy as a shared good
- 17:10Q&A and closing remarks
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