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by kbrannigan 297 days ago
We've moved past worrying about purchase data or location history. The real issue is the silent, constant ingestion of ambient data like License Plate Readers, Facial recognition and other biometrics voice, fingerprints . Even when you go to target or walmart, Exposed Cloud Backups and Private Messages. Just you driving to buy a potato, you have dozens of data points collected about you.

Every generation is already used to a degree of data collection so it's normal until it becomes overwhelming.