Peter Wang has a nuanced and empowering view on privacy.

· Bits and Bobs 11/17/25
  • Peter Wang has a nuanced and empowering view on privacy.
    • Here's a talk he gave many years ago: slides, video.
    • Privacy isn't just a right from.
    • It's a human right.
    • It recognizes the sovereign right of humans to decide how much to hold in and not expose to others.
    • That's our space to develop in the future, to grow into.
    • Privacy is not hiding, it's agency over how we show up in different normed spaces.
    • We are infinite dimension creatures, trying to show up in four dimensions to others.
      • So we need to be able to decide for ourselves which dimensions to reveal to whom.
      • We want to show up to strangers in 8 bit, but to our friends in 32-bit.