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Privacy: The Sequel
"It doesn’t seem very useful to reassess our ledgers of privacy without also considering our ledgers of power. Those companies that have invited the most criticism for their erosion of privacy have become vastly more powerful than the people doing the complaining. The alleged surplus of “obsessive” worry didn’t do much to stop that; stories like this one, from 1990, which concludes that we have “no way of knowing all the databases that contain information about us” and that “we are losing control over the information about ourselves,” don’t seem pathetic or wrong-minded in retrospect. Mostly just ill-equipped."

TFW there really ought to be a decade-old writeup on #FountainsOfWayne in the archives of #TheAwl, but apparently nobody thought to do so at the time. (2011’s #SkyFullOfHoles really finding me in my mid-40s recently.) #DoubleBarreledNostalgia #RIPAdamSchlesinger https://youtu.be/R3Zt1lUEoE4