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by HeyLaughingBoy 39 days ago
Whenever these "privacy concerns" come up, I can't help but remember Elf Sternberg (whatever happened to him?) mentioning in 1998 that online privacy was a lost cause because everything you did was in a database somewhere. The only thing that's changed in the intervening 28 years is that we produce even more data.
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> (whatever happened to him?)

He's apparently now better known for other aspects than his insights into large databases!