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Privacy is ‘the most valuable right of all’, says Signal’s president. (www.weforum.org)
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  • Research from the World Economic Forum shows it’s becoming easier for citizens to be monitored, allowing governments, technology companies and threat actors to “reach deeper into people’s lives”.
  • In response, people are “waking up” to privacy, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of secure messaging service Signal.
  • Here, she explores the drivers behind this shift and how it could impact the digital landscape.
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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 50 points 2 days ago

Not sure if I agree but many rights are so important its hard to put one over another. Speech is very high on my list and the use of valuable in the title is strange. I don't see the qote anywhere in the article though but what they do say is powerful:

“I think of privacy from the framework of fundamental human rights, the rights of private communication, to live a private life, to think and do and communicate with who you want."

“We can't build new worlds, we can't imagine new paradigms without that incubation space, without the safety to experiment with ideas and think about what could work or not.”