Getting Bad Advice

Data protection and privacy “experts” are everywhere. Real wisdom? That’s much harder to find.

The Internet is a risky place for “expertise.” Because it is both a platform and a megaphone, it creates its own multiplier effect for whatever you put into it. If the arguments of the last few years have proven anything, it’s that even a poorly concocted lie spreads far faster than a well-explained truth, largely because the Internet allows for the near instantaneous transmission, repetition, and morphing of an untruth to suit the utterer’s…