Pretty much all of the current discussion I see around surveillance and the pandemic is framed like this: "to what extent can we balance new state surveillance with privacy", often citing post-9/11 spying powers as a cautionary example, and it's driving me a little bit bonkers.
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One of my Too Hot for Twitter takes is that we'd be better off handing big chunks of what social media companies offer back to a tightly regulated telco oligopoly, and not just for privacy reasons.
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But this is just not on the policy radar right now, though maybe The Machine Stopped pandemic response will get people thinking in this direction...
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