What was amazing about that story is that Congressional leaders from both Republican and Democratic sides of the aisle reacted with a shrug. It's no big thing, they said, we've been authorizing that for years.
So they seize all Verizon phone records and most of our data from the Internet. That's the end of privacy as we've known it.
There are alternatives to these big companies and activists should certainly explore using them. But progressive movements have also been reluctant to take this privacy issue on as a priority. It's not clear what we've been waiting for but it's clear we can wait no longer. We need to take back what we've lost, before it becomes impossible to do so.
So they seize all Verizon phone records and most of our data from the Internet. That's the end of privacy as we've known it.
There are alternatives to these big companies and activists should certainly explore using them. But progressive movements have also been reluctant to take this privacy issue on as a priority. It's not clear what we've been waiting for but it's clear we can wait no longer. We need to take back what we've lost, before it becomes impossible to do so.
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