We have built databases of ruin—archives of intensely-detailed personal records so vast as to hold every individual life at ransom.
The inevitable leaks are ineradicable, and cannot be cleaned up: "The Internet never forgets." In time, the mosaic will leave no life unrevealed.
It’s not a win for free speech when Elon Musk owns Twitter.
It’s not a win for journalism when Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
It’s not a win for any of us when Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
It’s a win for billionaires. It’s a win for oligarchy.
The Facebook whistleblower told us about a corporate culture of growth-at-any-cost. We need to change that culture by restoring competition—and that means breaking up the company. https://t.co/tVAPyPUqis
If you have a @github account, you can join me in co-signing the first letter uniting security & privacy experts, researchers, professors, policy advocates, and consumers against @Apple's planned moves against all of our privacy.
https://t.co/QIb1TwJE0C