Why Privacy Is Like Bubble Wrap

We need to rethink what privacy means, and what we want it to mean.

James J. Ward
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJan 28, 2021

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Today is Data Privacy Day, a great time to remember that we live our lives increasingly in visible, recorded ways, and that privacy is something that belongs to all of us and to each of us. Also, it’s a day when privacy professionals post jargon-filled memes that no one understands. “Did you hear the one about the Article 49 derogation?”

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James J. Ward
The Startup

Privacy lawyer, data nerd, fan of listing three things. Co-author of “Data Leverage.” Nothing posted is legal advice/don’t get legal advice from blogs.