I am a strong proponent of Tor and Tails. I have used PGP (via GnuPG) off and on for years. For those unaware, these technologies are designed to protect anonymity and/or privacy on the internet. Each may get its own blog post in the future. So it feels a little odd starting a new website with the purpose of getting all my professional and even personal information out into the eye of the public.
Personally, I do still try to browse anonymously using those technologies and a few others (which I will also post about in the future). I even run a Tor relay. I think that more people should be involved with the Tor project. So, I suppose the question is, "How do I reconcile my desire to remain somewhat anonymous with posting so much personal information?" I have been thinking, and at least in some respects it comes down to my ability to choose. I (mostly) choose carefully what gets posted on my website. I choose what I post on my blog and on social media. I have actually tried to be careful about what goes out to the interwebs about myself. I think it is perfectly fair for me to let people see certain aspects of my life without showing them every reddit post I read or every academic article I look at.
One day we could have this same level of control over all of our data. We may be able to better choose what people see about our activities online. I think this is still a challenge waiting to be solved, and I am interested to see how it all plays out over the next several years!
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