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   Zak :1password: (zak@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 07:08:52 JST Zak :1password:

   #Privacy is not “I want to be invisible on the internet.” That’s anonymity. Privacy is control over what others can do with your data. Your rights, your choices, your data ownership.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 07:08:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     @zak I’d go further (or perhaps state it a little differently to emphasise the core decision that determines whether it exists or not):

     Privacy is having to right to decide what you keep to yourself and what you share with others.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 07:32:33 JST Aral Balkan

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     @zak Having the right to decide what you want to keep to yourself and what you want to share with others is privacy.

     The means to enforce not sharing with others that which you’ve decided to keep to yourself is security.

     Unfortunately, many times security is defined as some entity protecting the data you’ve shared with it – usually as the prerequisite to using their services – from everyone else but the entity itself (see Google, etc.)

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     Zak :1password: (zak@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 07:32:35 JST Zak :1password:

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral I kinda sorta agree, but the line here is a thin one. I’d argue that the baseline of deciding what data to share is security, not privacy. If you’ve decided that your data should be yours alone, and then you discover that it isn’t and that someone else has access to it, you have a security issue.

     In my mind, privacy is deciding what others can do with your data once you’ve decided to share it.