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You have erected a hilarious false choice.

The supermarket is recording your image as you browse through the store, and within five years will assuredly be plugging you into facial recognition software.

It is not necessary for you to have a toll transponder in order for your car to be tracked. You have a license plate which can be trivially collected and indexed with off-the-shelf hardware and software. If you have a car made within the last few years, it probably has a permanent tether to the Internet.

Your cell phone is triangulated and your location is approximated to a handful of feet by your carrier.

In some not-too-distant future, it’s easy to imagine the death of cash, the outmoded way to pay: cryptocurrency is just so much sexier.

Newsflash: every man is not his own island.

In excusing those responsible for polluting my life, you are culpable also.