A central custodian of our personal data, which can be a government or a private firm like Apple, under regulations like GDPR, may solve today's privacy woes
as we've seen — so let's just give it to them because “privacy is dead” anyway. A thread, reluctantly. http://www.techmeme.com/... @wsjbusiness : ‘Group privacy’ is an idea whose time has come. What if Facebook and Google were the companies to manage it? http://www.wsj.com/... Ajay Bagga / @ajay_bagga : A hacker hitting just 1% of the cellphones in London with malware could monitor half the city's population: Welcome to ‘group privacy’ http://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Ajay Bagga / @ajay_bagga : Genuine privacy or anonymity is over, if we ever had it, says Paul Francis, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany http://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ