Card III-5: ERIC HUGHES – We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence.

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We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence.

ERIC HUGHES · A CYPHERPUNK’S MANIFESTO · 09.03.1993

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Source

“A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto”, 9 March 1993, 6th paragraph

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About the author

American mathematician and cypherpunk. Author of “A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto”, a foundational text arguing that privacy is essential in the digital age.

About the source

A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto: Eric Hughes’s text of 9 March 1993 on privacy as the basis of an open society.

The question on the back

What do you do yourself to protect your privacy?