It all speaks to scale: the attorney generals of 40 states within the US clubbing together to charge Google for misleading users. On this occasion, the conduct focused on making users assume they had turned off the location tracking function on their accounts even as the company continued harvesting data about them. The $391.5 billion […]
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With new technology, people always argue it’s fine at first. Like Roomba for instance. People thought it was just a vacuum robot. It wasn’t up to anything, right?
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Prisoners by choice. Sometimes people don't have a choice in relinquishing their right to privacy, and sometimes they do have a choice and relinquish the right to privacy anyway.
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Edward Snowden Gives “ALERT! Your Smartphone Is Always Spying On You.”
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Solving unsolved crimes is a noble objective, but it occupies a lower place in the American pantheon of noble objectives than the protection of our people from suspicionless law-enforcement searches… Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and […]
There are no private lives…. This a most important aspect of modern life…. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. […]
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Laws are like the governments that write them: susceptible to vicissitudes.
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What does one do against the sinister machinations of the Davos elitists? Against the violations by the same elitists of personal body integrity? Against violation of personal privacy?
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In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream The burden of proof has been reversed. No longer are we presumed innocent. Now we’re presumed guilty unless we can prove our […]
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How much do people value their freedoms and their privacy?
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