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1. Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2019 16:50:25 EDT Sean O'Brien

   circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."

   1. Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2019 10:29:25 EDT Sean O'Brien

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      the point here is not to praise IBM, but that there was a recognition of fundamentals about privacy almost 40 years ago that #BigTech is just now "waking up to". The understanding that data is a toxic asset, and that only information that's essential should be collected, is on display here. At least in marketing... from the biggest tech company of the day.