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Bookmark: The Privacy Project: Why you shouldn’t believe tech companies

8 October 2019 by Frank Meeuwsen

The Privacy Project: Why you shouldn’t believe tech companies (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com)

 “technology executives view and market invasive new technology — from smart diapers to facial recognition — “as inevitable evolutions” but in reality, they’re anything but. “Evolution doesn’t have meetings about the market, the environment, the customer base,” she writes. “Evolution doesn’t patent things or do focus groups. Evolution doesn’t spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress to ensure that its plans go unfettered.”

Technology is not inevitable.

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