Thread · 2 tweets · 16 Jan 2023

Quoting @LAM_Barrett, "notice and choice, a method of privacy regulation which promises transparency and agency but delivers neither." If I recall correctly in the same paper she says "it's not notice and choice, it's take it or leave it."

And it really shows everywhere. It's a system of structural learned helplessness: you are continuously made to know, and made to know that you can change nothing about it.