By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026Which 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? 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026The 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...pluralistic.netPluralistic: 13 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1133
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/10/2026From Flock cameras to ICE's use of Google data in its ethnic cleansing campaign, the US government and the commercial surveillance industry have created a public-private partnership from hell. 142
