Category: Privacy and self ownership
Owning our own information and telling Big Brother to get lost
The evening before election day, Ava and I walked down to the estuary, sat on a pier, and watched the fishing boats come in. The sky was cloud-studded but dry, the weather shirt-sleeve warm. The light resembled a luminist painting. The morning of election day, we walked down and watched the boats go out again under the same low, dry, radiant sky, while sharing a buttery croissant from the local tea shop. I thought, not for the first or last time, “It doesn’t matter whose butt gets planted in the Oval Office. This doesn’t change. This is my place and…
Well, that was fun. While you can’t exactly say the good guy won last night, politics-wise (Trump acolytes on Gab.ai are already planning the wall building and the roundup of my former neighbors from the old flatlands house and we’re likely to see tired authoritarian hacks like Guiliani, Gingrich, and Christie — ick — in power), the bad guys certainly got a giant punch in their snooty, elitist, entitled noses. And “the people” sure spoke loud and clear, even if millions don’t grok how poorly their message will ultimately be received. I’m dealing with some medical stuff right now (nothing…
- That store loyalty cards are disloyal to your privacy and your freedom.
- That, if you must have such cards, you should get them under a fake name and address.
- That, if you must have such cards, you should cheerfully and frequently trade them with friends who live in other parts of the country.
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