The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

Article note: There was a systematic underestimation of the abusive surveillance potential of technologies rolled out in recent decades. Shit, there are still a lot of educated people who don't understand the potential for coercion all this shit enables. It's clear much of it was intentional, not so much in a "conspiracy" way as an "Every individual commercial and government actor had incentives to maximize surveillance and dilute responsibility" way.