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We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.

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Rebecca Solnit
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 26
Art Historian
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