{"id":28073,"date":"2017-07-15T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28073"},"modified":"2017-07-15T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:05:41","slug":"motherboard-liberty-might-be-better-served-by-doing-away-with-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28073","title":{"rendered":"Motherboard: Liberty Might Be Better Served by Doing Away with Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard: <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/bjx5y5\/liberty-might-be-better-served-by-doing-away-with-privacy\">Liberty Might Be Better Served by Doing Away with Privacy<\/a> by Zoltan Istvan:<\/p>\n<p>If tech is surveilling us constantly, we need the ability to use it to watch the watchers. [Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, transhumanist, author of The Transhumanist Wager, and a Libertarian candidate for California Governor.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The constant onslaught of new technology is making our lives more public and trackable than ever, which understandably scares a lot of people. Part of the dilemma is how we interpret the right to privacy using centuries-old ideals handed down to us by our for[e]bearers. I think the 21st century idea of privacy\u2014like so many other taken-for-granted concepts\u2014may need a revamp.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The question of whether privacy needs to change is really a question of functionality. Is privacy actually useful for individuals or for society? Does having privacy make humanity better off? Does privacy raise the standard of living for the average person?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherboard: Liberty Might Be Better Served by Doing Away with Privacy by Zoltan Istvan: If tech is surveilling us constantly, we need the ability to use it to watch the watchers. [Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, transhumanist, author of The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28074,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions\/28074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}