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An Interview with Author Cory Doctorow

It Could Happen Here

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The Adtec Stack Is a Snarled Hair Ball

i think that the part of the problem with privacy, the reason that we were late to wake up and do something about it, is because it was obfuscated. One of the reasons that the adtec stack is such a snarled hair ball is so that the people who buy ads can't tell how badly they are being ripped off by their intermediaries. But this also has the side effect of making it very hard for us to know...how our own dignity and private lives and safety and integrity are being put to risk by these systems as well.

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