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This is the approach that my @eff colleague #BennettCyphers and I proposed in our "#PrivacyWithoutMonopoly" paper:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

III. Create legal safe harbors for scraping. Scraping is a form of #AdversarialInteroperability, the self-help measures that technologists use to modify and adapt existing services without their owners' consent. Think of reverse-engineering, bots, etc:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

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That way, you can skip the policy, because clicking "I agree" won't expose you to undue risk.

It's the approach that #BennettCyphers and I argue for in our @eff white-paper, "Privacy Without Monopoly":

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

After all, even companies that claim to be good for privacy aren't actually good for privacy. Apple blocked Facebook from spying on iPhone owners, then sneakily turned on their own mass surveillance system, and lied about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

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This is an approach that my @eff colleague #BennettCyphers and I first laid our in our 2021 paper, #PrivacyWithoutMonopoly, where we describe how and why we should shift determinations about who is and isn't allowed to get your data from giant, monopolistic tech companies to democratic institutions, based on privacy law, not corporate whim:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

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It turns out that giant companies just aren't good proxies for their customers' interests, and that the power they amass through monopolization shouldn't be counted on as a source of user safety. Monopolists won't reliably defend user privacy - that job belongs to democratically accountable regulators. That's an argument I developed in detail with #BennettCyphers in our EFF white-paper "Privacy Without Monopoly":

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

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I had her clarity in mind in 2021, when I collaborated with @eff's #BennettCyphers on "Privacy Without Monopoly," our white-paper addressing the claim that we need giant tech platforms to protect us from the privacy invasions of smaller "rogue" operators:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

This is a claim that is most often raised in relation to #Apple and its #AppStore model, which is claimed to be a bulwark against commercial surveillance.

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