The year we gave up on privacy
Posted on AllSides December 23rd, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn’t.
As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services that invade my privacy, collect my data, and track my actions. Then the pandemic came, and I threw most of that out the window. You probably did, too.
I gave away tons of personal data to get the things I needed. Food came from grocery and restaurant delivery services. Everything else — clothes, kitchen tools, a vanity ring light for Zoom calls, office furniture — came from...