# NYTimes: The Latest Data Privacy Debacle

**URL:** <https://discuss.diglife.com/t/nytimes-the-latest-data-privacy-debacle/212>\
**Category:** About surveillance and privacy\
**Created:** [January 30, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.diglife.com/t/nytimes-the-latest-data-privacy-debacle/212 "2018-01-30T22:37:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.diglife.com/t/nytimes-the-latest-data-privacy-debacle/212/1 "2018-01-30T22:37:27Z")

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> “Data privacy is more like air quality or safe drinking water, a public good that cannot be effectively regulated by trusting in the wisdom of millions of individual choices”

@zeynep says, calling for stronger safeguards in typically smart take

> **[Opinion | The Latest Data Privacy Debacle (Published 2018)](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.html)**
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> The saga of Strava, an app that inadvertently revealed the locations of military personnel, is the latest sign that we need better control over our data.