1 PROTECTING SOURCES AND YOURSELF
Most of us aren’t very aware of it, but we’re all under surveillance. Telecom companies and tech giants have access to a massive amount of private data about everyone who uses phones and the internet, from our exact physical locations at any given time to the content of our text messages and email, and they can share this data with leak investigators.
Even when our private data doesn’t get sent directly to tech companies, our devices still record our every move locally. Can you name every single web page you visited last month? Your web browser probably can, and so can web trackers that follow your activity across the internet.
In addition to the constant background surveillance that everyone faces, workers ...
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