Understanding Digital Privacy under Capitalism
The value of our confidences.
Article from the developers of TextSecure mobile app:
"If commodities could speak, they would say this: our use-value may interest men [sic], but it does not belong to us as objects. What does belong to us as objects, however, is our value. Our own intercourse as commodities proves it. We relate to each other merely as exchange-values."
– Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1.
Marx saw modernity more accurately than most of his contemporaries, and provided a description of capitalism that remains, in my opinion, quite useful.
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https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-value-of-our-confidences/