I suspect a lot of people only hear about data privacy issues in the context of aggrieved dudes on Reddit who think their anime viewing habits are worthy of government surveillance - and assume that's what all data privacy advocates are talking about.
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The real victims of data privacy issues are undocumented people terrified of ICE stings, POC vulnerable to online fraud, activists being harassed by hate groups, and so on and so forth...but we hear a lot less from those people in public.
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The data privacy world is remarkably diverse, and there's tons of superb non-neckbeard thinkers and writers out there - but again, they're not who gets highlighted in mass media, they're not who get the spotlight, and they have less time to whine on Reddit.
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White techbros should acknowledge that changing public perceptions of who cares about data privacy - IE, a super-diverse coalition of people - will benefit them, too. If we want people to take privacy advocacy seriously, they need to realize it's not just a petty nerd obsession.
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I mean, I had to realize this myself. I care about data privacy because I lived in Cambodia, an authoritarian country where local journalists get murdered: data privacy and security are literally life and death in a lot of places (including in the USA).
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However, the US media environment (and our culture) don't recognize the immense seriousness of this stuff: again, we largely highlight "white guys grumbling about abstract violations of Muh Data," even though they're a small part of the actual picture.
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