For 20 years, privacy advocates have been sounding the alarm about commercial online surveillance.
Cory Doctorow in LocusMag. View all annotations here. Privacy advocates tried to explain that persuasion was just the tip of the iceberg. Commercial databases were juicy targets for spies and identity thieves, to say nothing of blackmail for people whose data-trails revealed socially risky sexual practices, religious beliefs, or political views. I like this framing…