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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Incognito mode

Sci-Spy-Web Photograph: Shutterstock/Bryan Mayes

How to escape the online spies | Darien Graham-Smith

If you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear.

We’re going to ask for the return of all the videos – it’s a control issue, we want them back. We want him to assign the copyright to her so that she owns those materials. We want him to make an agreement that he’s not going to do this again. And then we want money. He should pay for the hurt he’s deliberately and profoundly caused.

Jenny Kleeman



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It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime. It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. The law needs to be changed, and we need to change.

Lucy Mangan



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Our default position is to mistrust strangers and governments, but we trust convenient services without really knowing anything about them. We trust that private companies use our data to “improve our lives”, but we hardly reflect on where our lives are taken.

Knut Traisbach



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Tinder is often compared to a bar full of singles, but it’s more like a bar full of single people chosen for me while studying my behaviour, reading my diary and with new people constantly selected based on my live reactions.

Judith Duportail



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Hi, my name is Arwa and my interests include homosexuality and dinner. In November 2015, I poked my friend Britta for the third time in a row. At 13.46 EST on 2 December 2017, I deactivated Facebook for the 28th time. My peer group has reached Established Adult Life. I have unfriended 19 people: two of these were exes and one was my former dentist. Take it from me, do not accept friend requests from your dentist.

Arwa Mahdawi

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