I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK
Privacy Is OK

ongoing by Tim Bray
@timbray Not to lean too much on credentialism, but Reid Blackman seems to have no technical credentials at all. And may have written this piece just to tell his would-be clientele what they want to hear anyhow.
@adamrice @timbray super astute and I agree