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@pluralistic@mamot.fr

2026-09-28 19:30 UTC

Companies like Facebook make pennies from your private data, and inflict harm on you that totals up to hundreds of times more than they actually make. The commercial surveillance industry are poster children for corruption: concentrated gains that are far exceeded by diffuse harms: https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/ 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. 24/

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  • @pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:30

    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. Imagine if our privacy regime was modeled on the human rights system we rely on when it comes to sex, bodily autonomy and consent. 25/

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