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    • To exist in 2022 is to be surveilled, tracked, tagged and monitored — most often for profit. Short of going off the grid, there’s no way around it
    • To exist in 2022 is to be surveilled, tracked, tagged and monitored — most often for profit. Short of going off the grid, there’s no way around it Pixabay

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    Alex Kingsbury

    Published Wed, Aug 24, 2022 · 07:33 PM

    WHENEVER I see one of those billboards that read: “Privacy. That’s iPhone”, I’m overcome by the urge to cast my own iPhone into a river. Of lava.

    That’s not because the iPhone is any better or worse than other smartphones when it comes to digital privacy. (I’d take an iPhone over an Android phone in a second; I enjoy the illusion of control over my digital life as much as the next person.)

    What’s infuriating is the idea that carrying around the most sophisticated tracking and monitoring device ever forged by the hand of man is consistent with any understanding of privacy. It’s not. At least not with any conception of privacy our species had pre-iPhone.

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