Federal whistleblowers are 9x more likely to lose their job today than 30 years ago…

Stanger, Allison. Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump. Yale University Press, 2019.

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Over the past year or so, I've been struggling to articulate exactly why the practice of #data #protection has frequently felt like a defeatist slog. A few days ago, I read an amazing piece by Zvi Mowshowitz (#thezvi), and it helped to define a form for all the thoughts swirling in my head.

It's really very simple: The current approach most of us have towards data protection and #privacy does not motivate anyone towards positive action that meaningfully protects data or privacy. Instead, we're encouraged to spend cycles on pointless privacy #theatrics, so that we can signal to others and ourselves how much we all care about privacy.

This is a broken model, and I've got some ideas for how to fix it.

I really think this is one of my better pieces, so if you're in this space (or interested) have a read and let me know your thoughts.

I posted it on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7047855109925429249/

And on my website here: https://knowligence.info/beyond-privacy-theatre-or-why-our-laws-mean-we-cant-have-nice-things/