Cory Doctorow on Nostr: By preventing confining privacy law to the VCR era, Big Tech has been able to plunder ...

By preventing confining privacy law to the VCR era, Big Tech has been able to plunder our data with impunity - aided by cops and spies who love the fact that there's a source of cheap, off-the-books, warrantless surveillance data that would be illegal for them to collect.

Writing for *Tech Policy Press*, the Norcal ACLU's npub1paauqns0afphvzww9nhktv7s3mdekp3etg5ka39vpfh4wqzcrswq7zkrks (npub1paa…krks) connects the tobacco industry fight over "pre-emption" to the modern fight over privacy laws:

https://www.techpolicy.press/big-tech-is-trying-to-burn-privacy-to-the-ground-and-theyre-using-big-tobaccos-strategy-to-do-it/

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