By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026It's also instructive to compare this process to the steps a data broker has to take to spy on you and sell your data: * Step one: Exist. * Step two: There is no step two. 41/ 1142
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026Though there are many obvious ways this could be made better, I want to stress here that *you shouldn't have to do this at all*. It's entirely backwards. The process for *not* being spied on should look like this: * Step one: Exist. * Step two: There is no step two. 42/ 1154
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026If *anyone* is going to be forced to jump through hoops to participate in the mass collection and catastrophic mishandling of private data, *it should be the data brokers*, not the people they spy on. 43/ 1202
