Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun? | Alan Rusbridger
Not so long ago we searched Google. Now we seem quite happy to let Google search us
by Alan Rusbridger
Feb 02, 2020
4 minutes
Probably too late to ask, but was the past year the moment we lost our technological innocence? The Alexa in the corner of the kitchen monitoring your every word? The location-betraying device in your pocket? The dozen trackers on that web page you just opened? The thought that a 5G network could, in some hazily understood way, be hardwired back to Beijing? The spooky use of live facial recognition on CCTV cameras across London.
With privacy there have been so many landmarks in the past 12 months. The on Facebook to settle the Cambridge Analytica scandal? The accidental exposure of a mind-blowing from two data enrichment companies? Up to 50m spilled?
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