Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Sterling argues that privacy requires awareness and literacy, not just ignorance of monitoring.
- In plain terms
- True privacy needs knowledge, not just not knowing you are watched.
- What can you take from it?
- Privacy requires informed awareness, not just ignorance.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is true privacy?
- Does ignorance protect us?
Another view
It conflates privacy with awareness rather than access or protection.
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