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Big Tech is Trying to Burn Privacy to the Ground–And They’re Using Big Tobacco’s Strategy to Do It
Jake Snow is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.
It has developed face surveillance technology that profits off racially biased policing and incarceration, enabled scammers to proliferate, and pushed low-quality, overpriced junk on consumers. A fierce grassroots movement notched early victories, including the Beverly Hills smoke-free restaurant ordinance and Pittsburgh’s restriction on smoking in public places. Once state legislatures are sealed, power decreases dramatically for grassroots activists, communities of color, and other groups that have limited access to the halls of Congress and far fewer resources to make their voices heard.
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