Cory Doctorow on Nostr: No surprise, then, that tech companies have adopted the same spin tactics that sowed ...
No surprise, then, that tech companies have adopted the same spin tactics that sowed doubt about the tobacco-cancer link, in order to keep the US from updating its anemic privacy laws. The last time Congress gave us a new consumer privacy law was 1988, when they banned video store clerks from disclosing our VHS rental history to newspapers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act17/
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