That's demonstrably true of commercial surveillance. Commercial spies lie to customers *like crazy*, and always have. Think of department store magnate John Wannamaker's famous quip that "half my advertising dollars are wasted, I just don't know which half." Man, did someone ever do a sell-job on old Wannamaker: imagine believing that *only half* of your advertising dollars are wasted. Today, thanks to creepy ad-tech analytics, we know that the true figure is around *99%*.
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Cory Doctorow
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