"But just because #privacy doesn't fit well into a property rights framework, it ...

2026-09-29 10:12:36 UTC

"But just because #privacy doesn't fit well into a property rights framework, it doesn't follow that there's no way to do privacy well. We have lots of other rights frameworks besides property...

Imagine if our privacy regime was modeled on the #HumanRights system...

If we apply a consent regime (not a property regime) to privacy rights, then the entire commercial surveillance industry would cease to exist."
- Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/cost-of-everything/#value-of-nothing

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