A.I. Armory

We know that the problem with the current system is rooted in the tech industry’s standard policies, terms, and conditions. We don’t have to agree to any of them. This is one of our most fundamental human rights. Instead, we can stand firmly in our own legal expectation of privacy and we can hold the industry accountable to it. We can expect governments to stand up for us, as well, because history has shown that any digital data they may collect from us exposes us to unnecessary risk. By personal request, governments shall order and enforce the deletion of all personal and interpersonal information, direct and extrapolated, pertaining to that person. Governments shall also require a working ‘I do not agree’ button next to every ‘I agree’ button anywhere the industry proposes monetizing what that person considers to be sacred. Upon request, the system must collect zero personal bits, store zero, and analyze zero. Respect us as people. Without reasonable cause we do not consent to being tracked, profiled, stereotyped, or discriminated for or against, in any way. Subjecting us to any system that treats us like we’re all potential terrorists is the true Act of Terror.

We are a group of people who disagree with the way digital information is handled. From phone and text records to biometric information, and the rest of it, we’ve seen enough news of breaches over the years to know that nothing digital is secure and that, given the trajectory of technological advancement, nothing digital ever will be secure. The commercial influence behind the tech age, with its practice of collecting and sharing our personal information for its own profit, has initiated a fundamental shift in power from the people to the establishment and to whomever owns the establishment. We, therefore, peacefully withhold our consent to any collection of our personal information by anyone or anything, regardless of whether or not it is deemed by anyone else to be personally-identifiable. This is a human rights issue, not one of social policy. We have a right remain secure in our persons and we expect zero exposure. Our collective sovereignty is too important to be stripped away like this from the inside out.