I call BS on technical grounds, but I look forward to someone enlightening me.https://twitter.com/katecrawford/status/856169869691244544 …
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There's no clarity at the moment; feel like nytimes article mostly confuses the issue.
Oh sorry finally got to that part of the nytimes article.
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