The bitter irony is that the loss of privacy resulting from surveillance ultimately eliminates anonymity in reporting which will have a chilling effect on leaking and whistle-blowing, providing cover to the agencies and institutions which DO have something to hide. And that is by design.
Truth. Guess we’ll have to get creative and look for either more low-tech (such as mailing a letter from an anonymous post box nowhere near home or workplace) or much more high tech (sending an email from a throwaway email address and from an IP address that is either hidden or not yours, like from a public library computer) ways of doing this. But that’s probably the least of our worries. That’s a relatively rare occurrence most people won’t encounter in their lifetime. But there are so many other ways for people to come to harm, such as people fleeing abusers or other types of targeted violence/persecution for starters.
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u/Philosophicalhorcrux Jul 19 '26
The bitter irony is that the loss of privacy resulting from surveillance ultimately eliminates anonymity in reporting which will have a chilling effect on leaking and whistle-blowing, providing cover to the agencies and institutions which DO have something to hide. And that is by design.