For decades, people have proclaimed the now-common refrain that “privacy is dead.” I often think back to Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, claiming in 1999 that “you have zero privacy anyway… get over it.” I wouldn’t go as far as saying that leaders at startups hold such a strong disregard for privacy, but I do find many taking the stance that the world’s strictest data privacy laws don’t apply to them.

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