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I noted yesterday that a coalition of self-styled “privacy advocates” chose Monday, September 1, to launch an all-out attack on online advertising—which happened to be 70 years to the day after the start of World War II. Since the term “Privacy War” has been used since the late 90s as a catch-all for the battle [...]

Note the disclaimer below, emphasized here Seventy years ago yesterday, German troops invaded Poland.  Thus began World War II—after twenty years of rising tension in Europe. For the next eight months, the world sat waiting for the other shoe to drop—the sitzkrieg (literally “sitting war”) or “Phoney War,” as the English dubbed it. Finally, Germany [...]