Cory Doctorow's Right About Data Brokers. He's Wrong About DROP. Here's Everything You Need to Know About California's Opt-Out Tool.

I don't say this lightly: Cory Doctorow has shaped how I think about surveillance capitalism more than almost anyone else writing today. His books have directly influenced my relationship with privacy, digital rights, and the future of the open internet, and I know they have for lots of our audience members too! So when I tell you I disagree on his recent piece on California's DROP tool where he calls it an 'obstacle course' with the slug of the article being 'privacy theater', it's because I wanted to share my difference in views in the most respectful possible way. But I'm still bowing down to the legend 🙇For those who don't know, DROP is a data broker removal tool for California...

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