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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

Tech companies spy on you for the same reason your dog licks its balls - because they can, and no one stops them: pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/i...

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Pluralistic: Ad-tech is fascist tech (10 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

Which raises an obvious question: *why* hasn't Congress updated privacy law? And why hasn't the EU figured out how to force the US companies that pretend to be Irish to obey European privacy law?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026

The answer is that governments *love* private sector data-collection, because it gives them a cheap, off-the-books source of warrantless access to information they aren't legally allowed to acquire: pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/p...

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Pluralistic: 13 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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