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  "path": "/t/how-much-privacy-can-i-really-have-when-im-being-ratted-out-by-my-friends/37201#post_4",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T03:01:36.000Z",
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    "Privacy Guides – 19 Apr 26",
    "Interview with Carissa Véliz, Author of \"Privacy is Power\" and \"Prophecy\""
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  "textContent": "useduser:\n\n> I’m coming to the belief that interacting with people who are not privacy conscious has become a privacy risk.\n\nThis risk existed at the time social media and smartphones became normal. Social norms have degraded rapidly such that people now feel completely guiltless and entitled to photograph/record people and share their information publicly and to corporations without their knowledge or consent, and many of them will try to stigmatize those who disagree.\n\nStill there are things you can do, and I hope you won’t feel so powerless you give up. This forum proves you are not alone in your beliefs and practices. The more data you deny disrespectful people, governments and corporations from obtaining the better. You are doing or know about some of the below points already, but here are some things you can consider/try.\n\n  * Refuse to be photographed and recorded.\n  * Tell people not to share information about you on social media or publicly.\n  * Refuse to do activities in surveilled spaces.\n  * Wear a face mask, sunglasses and hat (or their alternatives) as your society, climate, groups, activities and body allow.\n  * Use psueudonyms instead of your government name, ideally entire profiles not just names, and compartmentalize them by group/activity.\n  * Use E2EE and FOSS apps for communication and organizing.\n  * Be selective about who you give your contact details to and which of those details to give.\n  * Refuse to hand over personal information your peers ask of you, or question them about why they want such information.\n  * Cut ties with people/groups who refuse to cooperate with the above points.\n  * Educate your friends about privacy, especially its benefits and consequences of its violation, in ways they can relate.\n\n\n\njonah:\n\n> We have an interview on our YouTube channel coming out on the 19th that touches on some of these issues if that’s of any interest to you.\n\nThis one?\n\nPrivacy Guides – 19 Apr 26\n\n### Interview with Carissa Véliz, Author of \"Privacy is Power\" and \"Prophecy\"\n\nWe sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in...",
  "title": "How much privacy can I really have when I'm being ratted out by my friends?"
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