Richard Stallman is saying what @dredmorbius has been saying for a long time now. Data is dangerous, and should not be collected unless absolutely necessary.
@starbreaker @dredmorbius the fella behind the bookmarking site Pinboard has been saying this too. Treat personal data like radioactive waste, not an asset. Don't hoard it, store it safely etc.
He's done a few talks and blogged on idlewords.com
@ebel @starbreaker Maciej is a God.
Cory Doctorow, Bruce Schneier, Eben Moglen, and, since the 1980s, Shoshana Zuboff.
@dredmorbius @starbreaker @ebel Calling Maciej a God implies some sort of infallibility that I don't think he has, even though I agree with most of his writings.
@Michcioperz @dredmorbius @ebel It depends on what tradition you're drawing from. Yahweh would never admit to being fallible, but the Olympian gods and the Aesir were fallible as fuck.
@starbreaker @dredmorbius @ebel With Olympian gods there is still a degree of godliness, separating gods from humans
@Michcioperz @dredmorbius @ebel You could probably still kill them if you had enough gun.
According to Homer, Diomedes managed to wound two of them with just a sword and a spear during the Trojan War.