You're Being Surveilled
My interview with Byron Tau on his great new book "Means of Control"
If you’re worried about the government monitoring you online…you should be. But they couldn’t do it without the eager (and well-compensated) participation of all the major social media platforms, ad platforms, data brokers, and a constellation of other companies monetizing your data, your interests, and your habits.
Byron Tau’s new book Means of Control is chilling, and a fascinating deep dive into this very dark world.
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But are they monitoring my bible purchases? That’s the burning question. All jokes aside, I’m tired of all the spying.
Great pod, Rick, super informative. Anyone who's worked with data knows it's not that hard to identify individuals from multiple deidentified sets. That's why I was always nudging friends on twitter to stop posting their birthdates and cities where they lived. It's alarming.