# A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman | Opinion | The Guardian

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance>

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## What Jamie wrote

I really want to like [Stallman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman)'s perspective on privacy, but I find his positions to be disconnected from reality. I once got the opportunity to have lunch with Stallman when he was in Minneapolis and I asked him how his positions extended to services over the web. He flatly just said he doesn't use them because it’s not free open source software. I insist that there must be a position in the middle, as Stallman's view is not workable.

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## Appears in

- [WT48: Weekly Thing #48 / Apr 7, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/48/), Culture

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