Tech Industry-Funded Think Tanks Work to Overturn California Privacy Law
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#2ugh, so fucking creepy, but it's perfectly in line with SV double speak
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#3At this point the statement and other gestures that a company "value's your privacy" is just a default poster someone puts up, while they do other things.
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#4At this point the statement and other gestures that a company "value's your privacy" is just a default poster someone puts up, while they do other things.
We value your privacy at $0.0003 per click!
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#5The fact that a 100% of the think-tanks taking corporate funding (from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Verizon, eBay) are trying to undermine excellent privacy laws passed by California [0] and Illinois state assemblies should come as a surprise to no one.
The problem is these think-tanks or variants thereof might end up representing the tech industry in most places where it matters anyway, just like how most of the standard bodies have been taken over by them and now slowly approve of features that further their business motives (I am looking at you ITU).
Two ways (there must be more?) I can think of to fix the behaviour of these behemoths:
1. External: Internet Activism. This has been well underway for a long time now but the corporates are patient beasts. The problem always remains gathering enough support [1] and generally the short attention span of the larger populace.
2. Internal: The employees. Be critical, put yourselves in akward situations, start demanding answers [2]. The problem might be risking job security? That could be offset by forming a large enough group?
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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17420849
[1] Btw, the signees of this letter care about your privacy: https://www.eff.org/document/december-2018-preemption-letter
[2] https://demandprogress.org
/offtopic https://firstlook.media is doing a great job. Almost all their articles are of high quality.
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#6yet, courageous and far-sighted individuals working towards federated and private data models pre-FB, struggled to find any funding, and were vocally criticized for "asking for money" or "trying to charge money" by intellectuals .. idcommons dot org
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#7The fact that a 100% of the think-tanks taking corporate funding (from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Verizon, eBay) are trying to undermine excellent privacy laws passed by California [0] and Illinois state assemblies should come as a surprise to no one. The problem is these think-tanks or variants thereof might end up representing the tech industry in most places where it m…
Is there any law/legal mechanism which could put automatic expiration on new laws? Is there anything I could suggest to my lawmakers for this to happen?
I mean, we seem to be following a pattern:
Big power wants something that directly and negatively impact the quality of life of the majority of the populace.
Populace rises up against this.
Big power 'loses'.
Big power makes the push again next year. People rise up, but a little less.
Big power 'loses'.
Repeat until popular power is worn out and big power gets what they want.
Once passed, popular outrage won't remove it, it's way harder to get support for repealing than for approving.
So...
I'd like to support something that changes that system from working that way.
I'd think an expiration date would due... but I'm open to supporting anything that would break this pattern.
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#8'trust us' by proxy
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#9The fact that a 100% of the think-tanks taking corporate funding (from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Uber, Verizon, eBay) are trying to undermine excellent privacy laws passed by California [0] and Illinois state assemblies should come as a surprise to no one. The problem is these think-tanks or variants thereof might end up representing the tech industry in most places where it m…
Is there any law/legal mechanism which could put automatic expiration on new laws? Is there anything I could suggest to my lawmakers for this to happen? I mean, we seem to be following a pattern: Big power wants something that directly and negatively impact the quality of life of the majority of the populace. Populace rises up against this. Big power 'loses'. Big power makes the push again next year. People rise up,…
Democratically speaking, the only reason Big Power wins is due to the fact that it's incredibly inefficient to stand behind interests of many parties investing small amounts against single players investing huge amounts.
One would think we need interest groups more.
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#10The US should just implement Convention 108+ like the rest of the world.