Chelsea Manning on the Sad State of Online Privacy

Chelsea Manning on the Sad State of Online Privacy
Chelsea Manning warned us.Over four years ago, the whistle-blower penned an op-ed for The New York Times titled, “This Is the Dystopia You Signed Up For,” observing that “virtually everything we do causes us to bleed digital information, putting us at the mercy of invisible algorithms that threaten to consume our freedom.”Did people listen? Yes and no.“Privacy has been in a weird spot lately,” Manning told me on a recent Zoom call. She sounded almost exasperated by society’s indifference to privacy. Many of us heard the warnings, read stories about data abuse … and simply shrugged.This article is part of…