Privacy Invasion

Would you betray your friends for free pizza?

Mundane events are like gold ore to the data miners. They convert that information into digital portraits of us that they can sell to advertisers.

Without asking us, Big Data companies harvest, analyze and sell every scrap of data they can glean from our use of their products.

The government has every right to comb through your phone. I’ve been aware of this issue — but I didn’t realize how aggressive those searches had become.