When it comes to privacy, who watches the watchmen?
Pushing back against mass surveillance means decentralising everything and watching the watchmen. Do you want the authorities to know everything about you?
Gabriel Custodiet is an author and podcaster who unpacks the relationship between privacy, decentralisation, and utopian surveillance goals throughout history. Our conversation is loosely based on his book The Watchman Guide To Privacy.
The Watchman Privacy Guide
This is an easy five stars from me. Technocracy is becoming more of a reality and Gabriel not only explains what is happening but also what to do about it.
Chasing privacy tends to lead to more surveillance by governments and corporations.
In his conversation with me, Gabriel chatted about the current technocratic war impacting our freedoms and entire way of life, but added that black-pill cultureleads to nihilism and inaction. So it’s important to do something rather than just doom-scroll and moan all the time.