When we sat down with Mactaggart in San Francisco, it was impossible not to be impressed. It would have been easy to see him as a threat—an activist looking to rein in an industry that had become too powerful. Instead, we found a likable pragmatist who was thinking broadly about the future. “This isn’t over,” he said. “We’ll be talking about technology and privacy for the next hundred years. Just like we do with antitrust law more than a century after the Standard Oil case.”
