Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)

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Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder.
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Pluralistic: At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy (16 August 2023)

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At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy: The CFPB rejects the learned helplessness of generations of regulators.
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Pluralistic: Linkty Dumpty (15 July 2023)

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Linkty Dumpty: Things I thought about when I was supposed to be on holidays.
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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok"; Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues (17 Apr 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok": My Medium column on a surveillance-free internet.
Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues: Meet Marty Hench and his "foolish and ungainly and luxurious tour bus."
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Pluralistic: We should ban TikTok('s surveillance) (30 Mar 2023)

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We should ban TikTok('s surveillance): And Google's, Apple's, and Facebook's surveillance, too.
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Pluralistic: Fighting the privacy wars, state by state (23 Feb 2023)

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Fighting the privacy wars, state by state: Treating Congress as damage and routing around it.
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Pluralistic: 22 Nov 2022 Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook

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Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook: And they didn't even know they were doing it.
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Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product

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Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more.
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Pluralistic: 22 Aug 2022 Gmail will call the cops on you based on the content of your emails

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Google falsely told the police that a father was a molesting his son: Filternets fail.
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