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It's not as if Open Markets were a bunch of Google employees. If some rich guy calls up your employer and leans on them so that they fire you, you're still "fr
by maxander 9y ago
It's not as if Open Markets were a bunch of Google employees. If some rich guy calls up your employer and leans on them so that they fire you, you're still "free to continue your work elsewhere," but you would still be pretty upset. That's exactly what happened to these guys.
Big companies controlling think tanks is, of course, nothing new. But we tend to hold tech icons like Google to a higher standard, and trust them much further, than we do with oil companies or banks.
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- uoaei 9y ago> But we tend to hold tech icons like Google to a higher standard, and trust them much further, than we do with oil companies or banks. We have to if we want to overcome the cognitive dissonance involved with trusting them with our data in the face of such news as that linked above. If we can't trust them to play nice on this, how can we expect them to protect our privacy from snoops?