The shocking thing about the obvious and growing loss of privacy is how unconcerned everyone is. It’s worth saying again: every time we blog, tweet, post, rideshare, order from Amazon, rent an Airbnb – or anything that leaves a digital trail – we feed what Shoshana Zuboff calls “surveillance capitalism,” which is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people’s movements and behaviors online and in the physical world.
Happy “Data Privacy Day” – Now Read The New York Times Privacy Project About Total Surveillance by Steve Andriole at Forbes.