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Advancing Human Freedom through Technology

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Government agencies routinely circumvent the Fourth Amendment by purchasing location and app data from brokers. This practice constitutes surveillance without judicial oversight.

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The Fourth Amendment was written to protect the sanctity of private life. That protection includes not just your home, but must also include the personal effects inside your phone.

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Unchecked surveillance allows those in power to suppress truths they don't want known, control opposition, and halt whistleblowers. Omniscient oversight erodes the capacity to resist before any action is taken.

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Those in power will always be able to redefine innocence and guilt at will. Privacy is the legal and practical firewall that protects you against this. Claiming you have ‘nothing to hide’ abandons that protection.

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The belief that privacy cannot be protected is a false narrative that perpetuates its own destruction. Surrendering control ensures the rise of systemic surveillance.

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Individuals should not be required to justify their desire for privacy. The legal and ethical burden rests on those seeking to strip it away

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Authoritarian surveillance rarely announces itself. It infiltrates via software backdoors, marketed convenience, and widespread public indifference.

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Privacy is not secrecy; it is autonomy, dignity, and the right to exist free from oversight. Protecting it preserves the conditions for liberty.

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Naivete about surveillance facilitates oppression. Privacy is less about hiding and more about preserving the safety of those who challenge power.

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Financial privacy has been dismantled under the banner of fighting crime. In a free society, we presume innocence before surveillance, not the other way around.

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"Privacy is dead" is a false and dangerous idea. We have powerful tools to defend it, but only if we act now. The fight for privacy is far from over.