The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online

guest · Dec 31, 2019

The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online
And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it
December 31, 2019
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...earned-theres-no-such-thing-as-privacy-online

The last decade has seen no limit of scandals highlighting how personal privacy in the internet era doesn’t actually exist. Whether we’re talking about wireless carriers selling your daily location data to any nitwit with a nickel, or incompetent executives leaving consumer data openly exposed on the Amazon cloud, calling the last decade ugly would be an understatement.

What’s more the government, utterly captured by the industries it’s supposed to hold accountable, has proven feckless in the face of the threat. The United States still lacks any meaningful law governing behavior in the internet era, and the glaring lack of accountability couldn’t have been made any more obvious over the last ten years.
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Part of the problem is US regulators enjoy a tiny fraction of the resources given to privacy regulators overseas [...] While efforts are afoot to change that, a cross-industry coalition of lobbyists is working hard to ensure this dysfunctional status quo never changes.
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mirimir · Jan 1, 2020

Also see https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-in...cover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html

Tarnak · Jan 1, 2020

Huh! I googled this: chinese wall in the digital age is impossible + world of spies

And, I got that yahoo story as the second link down on the Google search page, which is the link posted in @mirimir 's post above.

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