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what made you get into internet privacy?
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A combination of over-involved parents when I was younger, and reading about human rights abuses later on. I think I first started reading about personal privacy stuff after there were protests in some part of the world, and then the government tracked down those talking about it online in order to arrest and torture them. People were posting urgently about how they could protect themselves and I didn't know what to say