privacy advocate
Data rights defender
A privacy advocate is someone who promotes the protection of personal information and opposes surveillance, data collection, or policies that erode individual privacy rights.
The term applies to activists, lawyers, researchers, and organizations working on these issues: Privacy advocates criticized the new facial recognition program.
The role has grown more prominent as digital technology enables unprecedented tracking of personal behavior.
- whistleblowerInsider who reports misconduct
- encryptionConverting data into code
- end-to-end encryptionUnreadable data between sender and recipient
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- activistVigorous cause champion
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- advocatesactivist, campaigner, crusader, defender, lobbyist
- Linux userssysadmin, power user
privacy advocateinformation broker
Sells access to knowledge
privacy advocateintelligence agency
Organization gathering secret information
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