re:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a forceful statement of the privacy case, though some commenters found its tone elitist and politically charged.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

re:publica

Topic

privacy and surveillance capitalism

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2020

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From the original HN conversations

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• Aral Balkan gave a superlative talk a few days ago at re:publica 2015, called Beyond The Camera Panopticon: [VIDEO] It's a broad overview the current state of the internet as seen through a cyberpunk, pro- freedom, human rights, and privacy perspective. Aral is a dynamic …

• Aral Balkan has excellent things to say about charades such as "privacy on facebook": [VIDEO] All in all, this is a great talk, I highly recommend you watch from start.

• Approaching the "to google or not to google" question is impossible without stating your casus belli . If you care about opsec, there are many reasons why you would want to use google services: e.g. a hostile actor will have an extremely hard time stealing …