Oversight

Online Privacy Isn’t Dead—If We Fight for It

Breaking down the four fallacies around online privacy

Trevor Timm
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Published in
6 min readApr 8, 2019

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You’ve probably heard the line a million times before.

In any debate about privacy — whether it’s among friends or on Capitol Hill — both defenders of surveillance and privacy nihilists will inevitably trot out the same tired…

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.