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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

The commercial surveillance industry are poster children for corruption: concentrated gains that are far exceeded by diffuse harms: locusmag.com/feature/cory...

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For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance, the way that companies gather deep dossiers on us to help marketers target us with ads. This pitch fe...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

But just because privacy doesn't fit well into a property rights framework, it doesn't follow that there's no way to do privacy well. We have *lots* of other rights frameworks besides property, and it's taken the concerted work of generations to get us to forget that these rights exist at all.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026

Imagine if our privacy regime was modeled on the human rights system we rely on when it comes to sex, bodily autonomy and consent. In this framework, no one is allowed to do anything to you unless you give your continuous, informed consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

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