Pluralistic: 26 May 2021


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Consent theater

Some of privacy’s thorniest questions

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Just say that we “fix” Facebook, making it possible for you to take your data and go to a rival service, one that respects your privacy, pays its taxes, and isn’t bent on enclosing all digital spaces into its pervasive surveillance walled garden.

It’s an idyllic vision, but our problems are just getting started.

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Pluralistic: 18 May 2021


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