🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://youtu.be/PArFP7ZJrtg?t=509 - Edward Snowden clip in intro https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-003250_EN.html - Chat Control article https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious - Flock article https://theconversation.com/tech-giant-palantir-helps-the-us-government-monitor-its-citizens-its-ceo-wants-silicon-valley-to-find-its-moral-compass-260824 - Palantir Article https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/10023548-how-long-do-you-store-my-data - Anthropic data retention policy https://intheshellpodcast.com - In the Shell Podcast https://yellowball.fm - 🟡 Yellowball, don’t just host your podcast, own it Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet.
And everything we do now lasts forever. Not because we want to remember it, but because we’re no longer allowed to forget. So, I saw this clip a few days ago, and I know that it’s about 5 years old at this point, but the way that Snowden phrased it really stuck with me. I typically think about privacy from, I want to protect my data from these big companies or from governments. But when you look at it from the perspective of everything we do today is permanent, and it’s not because we want to remember it, it’s because we are no longer allowed to forget it. And when I heard that and started thinking about it, it really stuck with me about why I do the things that I do to try and preserve my privacy.
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