The grass-roots surveillance network in the United States is poised for yet another major expansion this Christmas season. It was hard not to cast a slightly jaded eye at the packages under my own tree after working for months on the Times Opinion Privacy Project’s investigation into the location tracking industry. Some day, my child will look back aghast and ask: Wait, Dad, that was all legal? So, what to make of all the new data-gobbling devices given by the millions? I’d say cast them into the sea, but there’s far too much plastic there as it is.

Source: International New York Times December 25, 2019 19:52 UTC