I think the part that stuck with me most wasn't the ruling itself, but your point that people often stop questioning a system once they feel like they've "won." That feels like a much broader pattern than just privacy law. I'm curious! when you're writing pieces like this, how do you decide where to draw the line between making people feel informed versus making them feel overwhelmed or hopeless? It seems like that's a difficult balance to strike.
“If you’re celebrating it as a win, you’re just knitting your own noose.” Such a great closing statement that accurately sums up so many interactions I have with other supposedly smart people. Even when I make well sourced claims about our fascist government, I get raised eyebrows and statements like, “If that were true, the news would be all over that story.” By news, I have to believe they mean Fox, People or Us magazine. Because I get my info from many legacy news outlets all over the English speaking world. Anyway, thank you. I enjoy all your articles and am glad you write about so many different things. To me, that is a strength, and the hell with folks who want to limit you!
I just started laughing like a hyena reading this. Between your incredible wit and the waddle of waste we're wadding through, I think laughing is the best way to go sometimes.
Your cell phone data and signal reveal who’s logistically near you at your location…technology and knowledge can be a good thing, yet in the hands of fools and fiends it can be deadly. Thanks Alissa!
We really could stop a lot of this if we wanted to; bet all the people who were saying oh thats for criminals might think about that differently when grok has their 13 yr old all over the web and the epstein class is tracking her sister. Not a partisan thing.
I am sick and tired of being required to "open an account" in order to access anything on the net. It's like a rite of passage: you must not enter unless you give us your data. When free sites ask us to do that, what you give them is the price.
More people need to oppose data centers for this reason!
Not just the water and electricity they waste to sell things WiFi empowered pellet grills and ice makers that will track my whereabouts and light themselves or begin freezing water when I leave work.
“…it’s like the police searching your house without a warrant because they paid your landlord a hundred dollars for the spare key.” — and the landlord got that hundred from your nightstand drawer.
Thank you for once again reporting on the most consequential story people need to know about, and providing such clear and thoughtful coverage.
Not just agencies. That data should be owned by the consumer and not for sale, and not to be signed away in some shady “contract” clicked on by people anxious to get to their new app. Privacy matters, and our laws should reflect that.
I really hate the surveillance state. We need to end it.
I think the part that stuck with me most wasn't the ruling itself, but your point that people often stop questioning a system once they feel like they've "won." That feels like a much broader pattern than just privacy law. I'm curious! when you're writing pieces like this, how do you decide where to draw the line between making people feel informed versus making them feel overwhelmed or hopeless? It seems like that's a difficult balance to strike.
“If you’re celebrating it as a win, you’re just knitting your own noose.” Such a great closing statement that accurately sums up so many interactions I have with other supposedly smart people. Even when I make well sourced claims about our fascist government, I get raised eyebrows and statements like, “If that were true, the news would be all over that story.” By news, I have to believe they mean Fox, People or Us magazine. Because I get my info from many legacy news outlets all over the English speaking world. Anyway, thank you. I enjoy all your articles and am glad you write about so many different things. To me, that is a strength, and the hell with folks who want to limit you!
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Welllll, crap!
I just started laughing like a hyena reading this. Between your incredible wit and the waddle of waste we're wadding through, I think laughing is the best way to go sometimes.
Your cell phone data and signal reveal who’s logistically near you at your location…technology and knowledge can be a good thing, yet in the hands of fools and fiends it can be deadly. Thanks Alissa!
We really could stop a lot of this if we wanted to; bet all the people who were saying oh thats for criminals might think about that differently when grok has their 13 yr old all over the web and the epstein class is tracking her sister. Not a partisan thing.
I am sick and tired of being required to "open an account" in order to access anything on the net. It's like a rite of passage: you must not enter unless you give us your data. When free sites ask us to do that, what you give them is the price.
More people need to oppose data centers for this reason!
Not just the water and electricity they waste to sell things WiFi empowered pellet grills and ice makers that will track my whereabouts and light themselves or begin freezing water when I leave work.
There is a reason Thiel named his company after the all-seeing orb of Sauron. His purpose is just as evil.
You gotta love how everything
they name is straight from a stunted 13 yr old boy. Walking DSMs.
“…it’s like the police searching your house without a warrant because they paid your landlord a hundred dollars for the spare key.” — and the landlord got that hundred from your nightstand drawer.
Thank you for once again reporting on the most consequential story people need to know about, and providing such clear and thoughtful coverage.
‘Depressing as hell’ the 3 words that summarize every morning’s news
I’m glad you’re so clever Alisa. It’s a pity that you’re fighting this alone. Physically I mean. Emotionally you have lots of backers.
Not just agencies. That data should be owned by the consumer and not for sale, and not to be signed away in some shady “contract” clicked on by people anxious to get to their new app. Privacy matters, and our laws should reflect that.
I look so forward to your book.