After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Quote of the Week 47

"After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back."
― Bob Dylan



Stated in Dylan's 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One.

Triggered by the use of the quote in Artur Varanda's master thesis The GDPR and Log Pseudonymization. See the paper Log pseudonymization: Privacy maintenance in practice for an excerpt of the research results in English.


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