TOM EATON | Paranoid about online privacy? That starship has sailed already

While we know Big Brother is always watching, the current surge in anxiety around online privacy is just silly

13 January 2021 - 19:31 By tom eaton

If the current online frenzy is anything to go by, we seem to have been plunged into an episode of Star Trek, the one where Mark Zucker-Borg tells the voyagers of the Starship We Wanna Use Free Stuff Without Wondering How It’s Paid For that they will be assimilated on February 8, or have their WhatsApps destroyed. Resistance to the Facebook Collective, it seems, is futile...

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