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This One Weird Trick Tells Us Everything About You

  • Nicolas Hoizey
  • 9 September 2020
  • privacy
  • 2 reactions
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https://noti.st/laurakalbag/z23Us9/this-one-weird-trick-tells-us-everything-about-you

The web, and Big Tech at large, is tracking our every move, habit, and facial expression. As designers and developers who are also users, we both contribute to the surveillance system and are exploited by it. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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