Zero Day Living: Why I Started This Blog
They built the surveillance infrastructure first. Then they built the apps you love on top of it. By the time most people figured out what was happening, they were already ten years deep — every search, every location ping, every late-night anxiety spiral typed into a search bar, indexed and sold to the highest bidder. This isn’t conspiracy theory. This is the business model. Google’s entire existence is an advertising company that built a search engine to harvest intent data at scale. Facebook mapped the social graph of the entire human species and monetized it. Your ISP sells your browsing history. Your phone carrier sells your real-time location. Data brokers you’ve never heard of have files on you with hundreds of data points — your income bracket, your health conditions, your political leanings, your relationship status — compiled without your knowledge and sold without your consent. ...