A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
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by Richard Stallman, 2018-04-03
-The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet
+**The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet
Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first
-place.
+place.**
Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the
abuse of
Copyright 2018 Richard Stallman. Released under [Creative Commons
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-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/).
+4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/). The original
+English version was published in [The
+Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance)
+2018-04-03.