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Welcome to a world where your privacy is being sold for billions
- A new Crikey series, edited by technology writer Stilgherrian.
Before she’s even awake, Susan is under surveillance.
Her sleep tracker recorded a restless night, the third in a row. In a database, somewhere, she’s flagged as being stressed.
While she’s reading the news over breakfast, in an automated process that takes milliseconds, an advertiser exploits that knowledge to serve her with an ad for a meditation app.
Susan downloads the app.
When she starts meditating, both the time she begins, and…