I was really peeved at this piece the entire time I was reading. I think there is one important takeaway I can agree with, though. Advocacy organizations like

I was really peeved at this piece the entire time I was reading. I think there is one important takeaway I can agree with, though. Advocacy organizations like the EFF or the ACLU should be focused on their (nominative) constituents, not their (nominative) enemies. So in the EFF's case, "digital privacy" not "stopping government overreach". When advocacy organizations focus too much on a particular vector instead of the underlying goal, they risk losing their mandate. The EFF fights the good fight on the governmental side, and has done a ton of great work on the corporate side that the author isn't giving credit for -- Do Not Track, user education (on stuff like super cookies and browser fingerprinting), and so on. Long before "you are the product" became a thing you might hear in Congress or on cable television, the phrase was already trite among EFF's core demographic. But they could still improve their private sector digital privacy advocacy. The Santa Clara Principles are a step in the right direction.