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Philosophy Tube · 875.7K views · 2020-01-31 · 26:14

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A Philosophy Tube video essay on data, surveillance and the algorithms built on personal information, touching on Cambridge Analytica and the 'nothing to hide' argument.

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Cited in privacy and surveillance threads as a thoughtful treatment of being compelled to share data and the nothing-to-hide argument.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2020–2024

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pdkl95 · 2020-02 · Recommendation

"Unless we scan your card, you can't buy alcohol." PhilosophyTube recently posted a great video essay (Socratic dialogue?) that explores that exact situation. [VIDEO]

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FrustratedMonky · 2024-01 · Reference

It is such a hollow argument. Anybody using "nothing to hide" arguments, go ahead and post your passwords. Philosophy Tube episode on this [VIDEO]

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loup-vaillant · 2021-07 · Reference

It is not at all clear that we French were actually refusing to get vaccinated. First, it would seem the least vaccinated people were generally the poorest as well. The vaccine is free, but we generally need to get an appointment through some web site, on our own initiative . Our appointed family doctor did not call us to even ask whether we'd like to be vaccinated. This hints towards an accessibility problem. Second, when you look at the charts [LINK] (Click the "Injections Quotidiennes" tab on the second figure.), you can see that the daily injection didn't fall. It merely plateaued. Sure, first injections did fall, but they did so at the same time second injections were soaring, so they compensated each other. This plateau suggests our vaccination centres were simply functioning at (or close to) full capacity. Third, on July the 12th, at the time our President made his speech about restricting everyone's freedom (including the vaccinated, since you'd have to present your digital pass basically everywhere to basically anyone), they were justifying our "Reluctance" by quoting vaccination rate across the whole population, which was around 52%. What they didn't say is that this stats includes children under 12, for which vaccination is simply not available, and teenagers, for which our CCNE (Comité Consultatif National d'Éthique) said on June the 9th that it was not clear teenage vaccination was safe enough [LINK] It's only reasonable under these circumstances to exclude all u

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