Started with radical librarians in 2002 after the Patriot Act permitted the FBI to go after lists of books someone had checked out.
Many opted to shred the data once the book had been returned.
This is a step toward addressing the biggest 4th Amendment issue that has been brewing for some time. It’s the massive amount of personal data about you held in so many 3rd Party “silos” that keep all our transaction information. What “privacy” do you have in all that information if someone else is allowed to have it? And the government currently doesn’t need a search warrant based upon probable cause to get it, they just have to ask for it through the rubber-stamp subpoena process.
I am glad that some of the holders of this information are taking a stand that the government should not have unlimited access to it.
Big Brother doesn’t like it when he can’t see what you’re doing whenever he wants to see it.
We are talking the Washington Post here, where in their world what’s up is really down, what’s wrong is really right, etc.
So Silicon Valley is not getting radical, they are waking up to the tyranny government can offer.
Only radicals like WAPO will think being normal is radical.
With the Trump phenomenon (people responding to outsiders - non establishment types), I can see the pendulum swinging towards center for this nation, maybe a little past towards the right. It won’t be overnight, but it will happen. May be someday our grand kids will look at the Clinton through obama years and just wonder how it even happened in the first place. What will really boggle their minds is how a career criminal (Hitlery) ran for President or how obama got elected the second time.
It is amazing to me that due to an emanation from a penumbra there is a right to privacy guaranteeing abortion, but no right to privacy for mountains of personal data on individuals the government wants to have.