Why are we even talking about my privacy? You are a weather sitepic.twitter.com/MfOdfGVEYv
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You don't think privacy laws (outside the US) stem the collection and abuse of personal information? Did you see what EU DPAs did to Facebook's biometric facial recognition program? If not, what is your solution to surveillance capitalism?
I don't think they are especially effective, no. I laid out my views on what effective regulation could look like in this talk: http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm …
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