Own Your Privacy.

## Personal Privacy and Public Security Are Not Antithetical.

If you're here because you've read Own Your Privacy and want to take ownership of information about you and control over its use, then let's get started building your privacy fortress.
If something else brought you here, then do as Dan Geer advises and "Read this book." But while you're waiting for a chance to do that, let's take a moment to explain what we do and why it's needed.
The information space which we inhabit with our computers is becoming like other spaces - our homes, our kids' schools, our workplace. Unlike those buildings, however, the space in our computers is effectively outdoors. Providers of software and propagators of malware alike intrude upon our computers as though there are no walls or building codes in this, the space which should behave like any other indoor space.
While inside our computers, they help themselves to information about us, take it back and share it with their accomplices and end up with a disturbingly complete picture of all we say and do. Often they use that information to manipulate our perceptions.
The way to remedy this - to build spaces in which we own and control information about ourselves - is with the tools of authenticity, starting with reliable identities. While many privacy activists advocate obfuscating our identities, that does nothing to thwart the eroders of our privacy but does inhibit real protection of privacy. After all, if you're going to protect your information, access to it must be guarded and managed under an identifier.
Click here to get started building your privacy fortress.

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