Thomas Drake
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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I was at a conference.
It was a Web 2.0 summit out in the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco.
This is the fall of 2011.
And I actually held up the mirror to then the Twitters of the world, the Microsofts of the world.
I held up a mirror to all of them.
I said, what are you doing?
You're enticing people, and it's true, with terms and conditions, free services.
But then you get to take all that data and commoditize it and then sell it back to your subscribers.
And what do you give up?
Remember, this is where you get into the third-party doctrine.
It's sort of the heart of all this.
You don't own that.
You're consenting to any and all data that you provide, share.
It's not yours.
It's someone else's.
You're already seeing that, by the way.
You've seen it with electronic books.
where they can literally turn off your, you know, just because you bought it.
Even if you bought it, if you really look at the terms and conditions, they can revoke those.
Most of them can be revoked at any time.
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