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Monday 3rd of November 2025

Privacy Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, has calculated that by the time the average child is 18, 70,000 posts about them will have appeared online, starting with ultrasound pictures from the womb. Simon Kuper, Financial Times, January 24, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Privacy I don't think people give a fuck, actually. Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, when asked if he valued privacy less than most people © 2016 Kwiple.com
Privacy The idea of an unconsidered thought, a youthful indiscretion, a forgotten mistake – these are things that no longer exist. Edward Snowden © 2019 Kwiple.com
Privacy A sex toy company called We-Vibe, for instance, obtains and stores data on when, how often, and at what speed individuals use its vibrators. Smart speakers like Amazon's Alexa record, store, and share private conversations with the company. Apple's virtual assistant, Siri, has been known to record (and send back to the company) the sounds of people having sex. Sue Halpern New York Review of Books, March 9, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Privacy Users were appalled when it emerged that iRobot, a robotic vacuum cleaner, not only cleans the floor but creates a digital map of the home's interior that can then be sold on to advertisers. Standard Innovation, a maker of a a connected vibrator called We-Vibe, was recently ordered to pay customers $10,000 each after hackers discovered that the device was recording highly personal information about its owners. The Economist, September 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
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