{"id":1509,"date":"2021-05-15T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/privacy-activists-are-winning-fights-with-tech-giants-why-does-victory-feel-hollow-evgeny-morozov\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T10:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T08:58:13","slug":"privacy-activists-are-winning-fights-with-tech-giants-why-does-victory-feel-hollow-evgeny-morozov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/privacy-activists-are-winning-fights-with-tech-giants-why-does-victory-feel-hollow-evgeny-morozov\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy activists are winning fights with tech giants. Why does victory feel hollow? | Evgeny Morozov"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech<\/p>\n

For privacy activists, 2021 brings one big victory after another. First, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced<\/a> in March that it would stop tracking individual users as they roam from site to site. This decision was part of Alphabet\u2019s broader campaign to phase out the use of third-party cookies \u2013 an old but controversial technology, increasingly blamed for today\u2019s lax culture of data-sharing.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/span>You should be worried about how much info WhatsApp shares with Facebook | Burcu Kilic and Sophia Crabbe-Field<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nPerhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech
\nFor privacy activists, 2021 brings one big victory after another. First, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced in March that it would stop tracking individual users as they roam from site to site. This decision was part of Alphabet\u2019s broader campaign to phase out the use of third-party cookies \u2013 an old but controversial technology, increasingly blamed for today\u2019s lax culture of data-sharing.
\n Related: You should be worried about how much info WhatsApp shares with Facebook | Burcu Kilic and Sophia Crabbe-Field Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech For privacy activists, 2021 brings one big victory after another. First, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced in March that it would stop tracking individual users as they roam from site …<\/p>\n

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