Freedom & privacy: essential for your development
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 5:17 am
The first consumers in the Netherlands entered the internet in 1993. Children today grow up without any sense of privacy. They will not know what it is like to be unobserved, without recorded and analyzed thoughts. Is there a way back?
Six months of leave brought me to the most beautiful places in the world in the past half year. That is how it happened that in early December, sitting on the floor of an open hut in the mangroves of a virtually uninhabited island off bangladesh mobile phone number list the coast of West Papua, I experienced an ultimate moment of solitude. No planes or cars, no running water, no electricity, no Westerners, no form of modern communication.
Self-evidence
A few months later on Sunday evening March 2nd I watch Tegenlicht, while I mentally prepare myself to go back to work for the first time the next morning. Tegenlicht wonders whether we are the last generation that took privacy and freedom for granted. We seem to be unable to move, surf, communicate or go shopping without all data being registered, stored and analyzed.
Six months of leave brought me to the most beautiful places in the world in the past half year. That is how it happened that in early December, sitting on the floor of an open hut in the mangroves of a virtually uninhabited island off bangladesh mobile phone number list the coast of West Papua, I experienced an ultimate moment of solitude. No planes or cars, no running water, no electricity, no Westerners, no form of modern communication.
Self-evidence
A few months later on Sunday evening March 2nd I watch Tegenlicht, while I mentally prepare myself to go back to work for the first time the next morning. Tegenlicht wonders whether we are the last generation that took privacy and freedom for granted. We seem to be unable to move, surf, communicate or go shopping without all data being registered, stored and analyzed.