# If Your Privacy Is in the Hands of Others Alone, You Don’t Have Any – Doc Searls Weblog

<https://doc.searls.com/2024/01/29/if-your-privacy-is-in-the-hands-of-others-alone-you-dont-have-any/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Doc Searls commenting on Patreon's recent movements to try and repeal an old law around privacy dating from videotape rental times. I’m glad to see the EFF stepping in here. The opposite of Searls headline is my suggestion — take your privacy into your own hands. There are [things you can do](https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/12/26/what-why-and.html)!

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