Defending the Privacy Rights of Americans
"We should not blithely sell our democratic souls to the cyber tyrant. Privacy is a core tenet of democracy worth preserving. The Privacy Pirates don't win until we give up. It's time to get mad."
Leslie obtained her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Sciences from Northwestern University. She worked as an intelligence officer for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for 30 years. She draws upon this experience today in her unique views about the ongoing informational privacy debate . . .
THE PRIVACY PIRATES
A must for every American - the key to how your Privacy is being exploited and what you can do about it.
PRIVACY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
A penetrating and detailed analysis of Privacy in America and how we got to where we are.
Privacy is dead; Why should I care about it?
Privacy is essential to our democracy. If privacy were dead, our democracy could no longer exist. Our Founding Fathers designed the U.S. Bill of Rights to prevent government overreach by preserving our individual rights, including privacy rights. A country without privacy is no democracy.
Don’t all young people see privacy as passé?
Many of them reflexively say that. However, we all have private information about ourselves we don’t want to share with the world. Every time a young person tells me privacy doesn’t exist, I ask them to unlock their smart phone and let me scroll through their “private” messages.
Hasn't the internet killed individual privacy?
Not yet. The Privacy Pirates—Meta, Google, X, etc.—want you to believe that privacy is dead. They also want you to think that their services are free to you; in fact, they’re commoditizing your private information to sell advertising and make money. That’s not OK with me and it shouldn’t be OK with you.
