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title: "How to disappear in a fog of data (and why)"
date: 2016-11-18T13:14:00+06:00
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author: "Olivier Falcoz"
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> Our data will be shared, bought, sold, analyzed and applied, all of which will have consequences for our lives.   

-- [Finn Brunton](http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Finn_Brunton) and [Helen Nissenbaum](http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/main_cv.html) in *Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest*

That’s at least one reason we need to start scrambling our tracks.

Source: [Motherboard](https://www.vice.com/en/article/yp3ex7/obfuscate-yourself-nissenbaum-brunton)