UK Government is breaking the law by collecting everyone's internet data
There's a great talk, Haunted by Data, by Maciej Ceglowski about how tech companies are making a mistake by wanting to collect more and more data on their users, because governments are just going to want to come in and take it.<p><pre><code>    I want you to go through
    a visualization exercise
    with me. Really imagine
    it.
    
    Nixon's in your datacenter.
    He's got his laptop open.

    He's logged in! He's got
    root! What does he find?

    If you didn't break into a
    cold sweat at the thought,
    congratulations. You are a
    good steward of data.

    But if Tricky Dick in your
    data center scares you,
    then consider what you're
    doing.
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Slides: <a href="http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm" rel="nofollow">http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm</a><p>Video: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk</a>