Privacy is the new celebrity … Nico Sell shields her eyes from photography to avoid the risk of identity theft. Photograph: fastcompany.com
The founder of secure messaging app Wickr on privacy, why she always wears dark glasses in public and why girls make great hackers.
You’ve claimed that privacy is the new fame. Can you explain that? It’s now so difficult to be private that it will be the new state everyone strives for. But I don’t think we have to convince people of the need for privacy, it’ll just happen naturally… [just as] fashion is always going from skinny jeans to bell-bottoms and back again. The generation below always over-corrects to the one before, and you can already see this happening.
