Personal Privacy and Safety in the Surveillance Age with Jameson Lopp

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Interview location: Skype
Interview date: Thursday 18th October
Company: Casa
Role: Infrastructure

In his book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, published in 1949, George Orwell wrote about a dystopian future where the government subjects the population to omnipresent surveillance. That day is here, but the surveillance isn’t just that operated by the government; from Google scanning emails to Amazon recording your conversations with Alexa, Silicon Valley behemoths, hungry for data to provide their clients with more innovative advertising solutions are operating surveillance operations of their own.

These advertising solutions range from the innocent use of location data to recommend nearby restaurants to the more sinister use of data to influence elections, as seen with the Cambridge Analytics scandal.

There is a small but growing group of people who are rejecting this form of surveillance and business is responding. Privacy tools have gone from niche to standard. Opera includes a built-in VPN, Brave blocks ads and allows for Tor tabs for anonymous browsing and DuckDuckGo has placed personal privacy at the centre of search.

A lack of privacy protection can lead to a multitude of problems:
- Hacking
- Personal attacks
- Extortion
- Unwanted attention
- Damaged careers

Despite the risks of not taking control of your privacy, there is still a general lazy attitude towards it. Integrating privacy as standard and simplifying the user experience is why companies such as Brave and DuckDuckGo are growing. They are making privacy easy.

In this interview, I welcome back Jameson Lopp to talk about his approach to privacy and his recent Medium post on the subject: A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal - How to reclaim your privacy in the surveillance age, as well as Jameson updating me on progress at Casa.

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Helpful Links:

Connect with Jameson:
- On Twitter @lopp
- On Medium
- On earn.com

His websites:
- Personal
- Statoshi.info - Realtime Bitcoin Node Stats
- Casa - his current infrastructure role

Discussed in the show:
- Medium post: A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal
- Github: Physical Bitcoin Attacks
- Jameson Swatting Incident
- New York Times: How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life
- YouTube: Social Media Experiment - Instagram Stalker
- YouTube: Mind-boggling mind reading experience
- The Open Bitcoin Privacy Project
- Medium: Dandylion Protocol

Privacy Tools:
- Brave Browser
- Opera Browser
- DuckDuckGo Search
- Privacy badger
- HTTPS everywhere
- Monero Privacy Cryptocurrency

Other important links:
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The NSA Files
- Steve Hilton: Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism has resulted in Big Tech killing off human privacy
- Google scanning emails
- Amazon recording your conversations with Alexa
- Cambridge Analytics scandal

Casa articles:
- Medium: Manage your Keys with Casa
- Medium: Please welcome Casa, the world’s most secure cryptocurrency wallet

Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD038: Questioning the Obsession with Blockchains and On-Chain Governance with Nic Carter
- WBD036: The Threat of Fractional Reserve Bitcoin from Wall Street with Saifedean Ammous & Caitlin Long
- WBD034: Why Crypto Privacy is Important with Monero's Riccardo "FluffyPony" Spagni
- WBD018: Bitcoin Scaling and Lightning Network with Jameson Lopp
- WBD003: Bitcoin Philosophy and Tech with Jameson Lopp

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