What Jessamyn West thinks about journalism

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

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   Our readingCompanies that publicly deny tracking users are often tracking them anyway, and face no real penalty for lying about it.

   Their wordsWe know through research and journalism that even websites and companies which say they are not tracking people are often tracking people and we only find out through lawsuits. They just lie. There is no real penalty for lying.

   ↗Oral testimony for the Vermont data privacy and online surveillance billlibrarian.net 3rd of 3 in this piece