Is Privacy Becoming a Luxury Good?
summary
Walks through an experiment that spends about $2,500 and a year trying to opt out of surveillance, switching search to DuckDuckGo, blocking ad trackers with Disconnect, moving mail to Riseup and files to SpiderOak ($200/yr), and even creating a fake identity “Ida Tarbell” plus a signal‑blocking bag. Reports 92 of ~200 data brokers offer opt‑outs, license‑plate readers producing ~200 photos over two years, and a spyware catalog selling nation‑state tools at retail; concludes privacy without rights is unaffordable.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 1:59How Are You Being Tracked
- 3:31Inadvertent Bias
- 4:44Local Law Enforcement
- 10:32Data Brokers
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