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People have handed commercial technology more of their privacy than Orwell imagined.

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privacy Keeping what people say to each other between them: end-to-end encryption, backdoors, and what a company will shut down rather than break.

What Brian Kernighan actually said

  1. Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist teaching at Princeton
    As an almost accidental byproduct of this progress, we have voluntarily given up an amazing amount of our personal privacy, to a degree that Orwell might well have found incredible.

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