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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And this is how you can tell that most of this, for all of its technical splendor, is hollow. Every dollar spent selling you privacy that isn't mirrored 1:1 in lobbying for a real bloody privacy law *is misdirection*. Kayfabe.
The goal is to sanitise the narrative, not to solve the problem. Because the problem is reidentification, and that's not going away as long as we do actually useful things with our computers. The only way to make it go away is to make recombining this data costly.