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Privacy
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You Never Had That Right
The last Flock dodge is two claims glued together: you never had a right not to have your plate read on a public road, and the future-despot file is a fantasy because we have not invented new crimes out of thin air. The first confuses a …
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Sold as Privacy
Age checks are moving into the operating system and being sold as the private option: one yes-or-no instead of a passport copy on every site. The private option is a gate. On a phone, two companies hold it, and Congress wants to hand them …
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Papers and Effects, Restored
The Database of Ruin diagnosed the machine assembling itself out of cameras, phones, and purchase records. This is the other half: a proposal to flip the legal default so that a fact describing a person belongs to that person from the …
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The Database of Ruin
Privacy was never mainly protected by law. It was protected by friction, by the sheer cost of watching everyone. We have driven that cost to zero, and what we are assembling in its place is a single machine that holds something ruinous …