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Unfortunately, I think this letter will fall upon deaf ears. As we've learned from their response to the OSA repeal petition, their response to any criticism of these laws is to 1: Glaze said laws 2: Imply critics of the laws are sex pests/pedophiles/etc. and 3: Enact even more fascist legislation.

The UK Government (and I'm sure plenty of other governments) is willing to die on the hill of these thinly veiled mass surveillance/censorship laws. They won't stop unless the courts/a future parliament/a general strike forces them to. Because enacting a fascist police state is just too good to pass up.

I would be glad to be wrong and they actually listen but I don't think that will be the case.

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In my work as a privacy advocate, I regularly encounter two types of discourse:

1: The abdication mindset: The idea that privacy is dead, implying it's not worth putting any effort to protect personal data anymore. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, privacy is dead if you let it die.

2: The absolutist mindset: The idea that for anything to have value in data privacy it needs to be 100% perfectly private and secure. But the reality is much more nuanced than this.

Even if they sound like diametric opposites, both those ideas can be very damaging to privacy.

Privacy isn't just about the tools we use. Privacy is a culture we need to build, together.

privacyguides.org/articles/202…

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No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

Privacy is only dead if we let it die. Be careful about the all-or-nothing mindset in data privacy, it can do more damage than good to the cause. While striving for improvements, do not forget to cheer and celebrate each small win.

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