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" Our faith in technology is no longer fully consistent with our belief in liberty. "
Franklin Foer
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" Privacy won't survive the present trajectory of technology - and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk. "
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