Industry Unbound, book review: How the tech industry pays lip-service to data protection and privacy
"I'm going to change the system from within," a university housemate said proudly as she went off to law school. A couple of years later, she was more sanguine: "The pressure on you to conform is so strong that you give in." I think of her every time a privacy advocate friend takes a job with a huge data-guzzling firm, always ardently believing their hiring proves that their new employer really cares about privacy. From there, either they become assimilated into defending practices they used to excoriate, or they…