# Note on Why Privacy Matters and How to Retake It
Privacy and anonymity are essential to the free exercise of all other fundamental rights, including bodily autonomy.
A mother and daughter [will be tried for using abortion medication](https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2), based on their unencrypted chat records obtained from Facebook.
Social media platforms **will** disclose/sell/leak your private data and speech. The burden falls on individual users to prioritize privacy.
Users can prioritize privacy by opting out of **surveillance media platforms** and using privacy enhancing tools:
* ❌ Facebook chat -> ✅[Signal](https://signal.org/en/)
* ❌ Twitter -> ✅ damus (npub18m7…q955) // amethyst by Vitor Pamplona (npub1gcx…nj5z)
* ❌ Google -> ✅
[Brave](https://brave.com)
Users can prioritize privacy by opting out of **surveillance finance** through Bitcoin:
* ❌ Savings account -> ✅
[Coldcard](https://coldcard.com)
* ❌ Bank account -> ✅
[SamouraiWallet](https://samouraiwallet.com)
(android) //
[bluewalletio](https://bluewallet.io)
(iOS)
* ❌ Credit card -> ✅[Breez](https://breez.technology/)
After downloading these free open source wallets, make your first Bitcoin purchase through an ATM.
Find your closest ATM with
[CoinATMRadar](https://coinatmradar.com/)
The keep growing your stack through
BisqOffersBot (npub18mx…akuc)
and
RoboSatsOrdersBot (npub1kdk…jzq5)
Conduct all web browsing behind a VPN. Both [mullvadnet](https://mullvad.net/en/)
and [ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com/) accept Bitcoin anonymously.
Or use [torproject](https://www.torproject.org/) browsers.
All of these privacy enhancing tools facilitate anonymous speech and assembly -- deeply rooted constitutional rights -- entitling them to the highest levels of #FirstAmendment protections.
I have offered legal arguments and historical evidence on why code that advances anonymity and privacy is constitutionally protected, in the [latest print edition](https://twitter.com/thebtcmag/status/1631342506318376961) of
I hope these resources help anyone needing privacy, for any reason, but especially to vindicate their fundamental rights and achieve autonomy. 🙏
For more fulsome guides and resources, check out work by Jameson Lopp (npub17u5…t4tp), Seth For Privacy (npub1tr4…2y5g), ODELL (npub1qny…95gx)
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2023-03-13 15:07:58
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"content": "# Note on Why Privacy Matters and How to Retake It\n\nPrivacy and anonymity are essential to the free exercise of all other fundamental rights, including bodily autonomy. \n\nA mother and daughter [will be tried for using abortion medication](https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2), based on their unencrypted chat records obtained from Facebook.\n\nSocial media platforms **will** disclose/sell/leak your private data and speech. The burden falls on individual users to prioritize privacy.\n\nUsers can prioritize privacy by opting out of **surveillance media platforms** and using privacy enhancing tools: \n\n* ❌ Facebook chat -\u003e ✅[Signal](https://signal.org/en/)\n* ❌ Twitter -\u003e ✅ #[0] // amethyst by #[1]\n* ❌ Google -\u003e ✅ \n [Brave](https://brave.com)\n\nUsers can prioritize privacy by opting out of **surveillance finance** through Bitcoin:\n\n* ❌ Savings account -\u003e ✅\n [Coldcard](https://coldcard.com)\n\n* ❌ Bank account -\u003e ✅\n [SamouraiWallet](https://samouraiwallet.com)\n (android) // \n [bluewalletio](https://bluewallet.io)\n (iOS)\n\n* ❌ Credit card -\u003e ✅[Breez](https://breez.technology/) \n\nAfter downloading these free open source wallets, make your first Bitcoin purchase through an ATM. \n\nFind your closest ATM with \n[CoinATMRadar](https://coinatmradar.com/)\n\nThe keep growing your stack through \n#[2]\n and \n#[3]\n\nConduct all web browsing behind a VPN. Both [mullvadnet](https://mullvad.net/en/)\n and [ProtonVPN](https://protonvpn.com/) accept Bitcoin anonymously.\n\nOr use [torproject](https://www.torproject.org/) browsers.\n\nAll of these privacy enhancing tools facilitate anonymous speech and assembly -- deeply rooted constitutional rights -- entitling them to the highest levels of #FirstAmendment protections.\n\nI have offered legal arguments and historical evidence on why code that advances anonymity and privacy is constitutionally protected, in the [latest print edition](https://twitter.com/thebtcmag/status/1631342506318376961) of \n\nI hope these resources help anyone needing privacy, for any reason, but especially to vindicate their fundamental rights and achieve autonomy. 🙏\n\nFor more fulsome guides and resources, check out work by #[4], #[5], #[6] ",
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