The surveillance business model goes to war against the FTC

doctorow · January 28, 2016, 5:16pm

cameronh1403 · January 28, 2016, 5:29pm

Late Stage Capitalism indeed

drsdl · January 28, 2016, 6:02pm

…Commissioner Orson Swindle, a longtime opponent of the FTC’s privacy activities.

Wow. That’s awesome.

fuzzyfungus · January 28, 2016, 7:17pm

Unfortunately, that name makes him probably among the most honest of the FTC’s opponents on the issue. The others are subtler.

snapdragon · January 28, 2016, 8:51pm

Maybe I’m shallow, but it seems like you ought to be able to find an industry anti-privacy advocate whose name isn’t “Swindle”.

shaddack · January 28, 2016, 9:34pm

Maybe it takes one to recognize one?

doctorow · February 2, 2016, 5:16pm

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