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You’re Not Alone When You’re on Google

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"“The danger that ‘privacy’ doesn’t capture is this idea of creep,” says Frischmann, an internet law expert at Villanova University. Like letting that random person into your Facebook circle, or — and this happened in Frischmann’s own life — seeing your child come home from school with a fitness tracking device, which may seem like a win-win (you get free tech; the child might learn about healthy habits) until you consider what it means.

“You’re conditioning a generation of kids to accept bodily surveillance by others without question,” he says."

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