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"Congress hasn't updated consumer privacy law since 1988, when it took the bold step of…banning video-store clerks from telling newspapers which VHS cassettes you took home. Since then, a coalition of commercial surveillance companies, cops and spies who treat their data-lakes as massive lagoons of warrantless surveillance data has prevented the passage of any new privacy protections for Americans : Thinking the unthinkable Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction