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A Reality Check on Righteous Privacy Indignation

Posted on December 23, 2010July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Chris Maxcer comments:

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some of my iPhone apps are spying on me. They apparently know when I use them, my location, my age and my gender. Then they send it all to marketing companies. This wouldn’t happen if we’d all pay full price for everything we use and download. But given the chance, despite the anger over this violation of privacy, how many would really do that?

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