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'Can you please not' campaign? I love it. Let's make it happen.

Ben is spot on. There is an unholy alliance between the tech giants, the telcos, and the gov. It's been interesting since MUSCULAR to see the tech giants going after the NSA. They're realizing that trust is eroding, especially globally, and it's going to hurt their pocketbooks. Putting pressure on the corps right now may lead to some meaningful legislative change. However, I believe the answer may ultimately lie in innovative solutions, such as decentralization of data.

I'm being a little ironic here. Mark Zuckerberg claims that privacy is dead. In the film, when I approach him with cameras on his way to work and ask him for his real thoughts are on privacy, he responds, "Are you recording?" He then says, "Can you please not?" The point is, we all care about privacy. But it's easy to say that privacy is dead when that philosophy aligns with your company's business model.

Given how this resonated on Twitter, I'm thinking we move trackoff.us into a campaign around 'can you please not'. We're snagging the url. Feel free to shoot me a message and we can discuss.

Who would have thought that Mark Zuckerberg could potentially have the voice of a movement for digital privacy?