The privacy wars have been a disaster and they’re about to get a LOT worse

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In my latest Locus column, The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse, I describe the history of the privacy wars to date, and the way that the fiction of “notice and consent” has provided cover for a reckless, deadly form of viral surveillance capitalism.

As bad as things have been, they’re about to get much, much worse: the burgeoning realm of the “Internet of Things” is filled with surveillance devices that you can’t even pretend to give your consent to.

It’s possible that w...