Civic Hygiene

The principle that technologists should be mindful of the ways their technologies could be misused by authoritarian powers. Coined by Bruce Schneier in 2010.

It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.

— Bruce Schneier (2010)

Notes

I came across this term reading Terence Eden's blog post about the UK government's 2026 wildfire emergency alert.

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