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 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026This kind of malicious compliance is the *inevitable* outcome of a process that starts by taking the obvious best measure off the table. 44/ 1122 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026The answer to the problem of data brokers is *banning data brokers*, not creating a demented hairball of form-filling that maintains the fiction that data broker surveillance is consensual. 45/ 1224 0
