Though Covid-19 restrictions have eased — for now, at least — and the masks have come off, we should not forget all those red-blooded, liberty-lov

Americans demanded freedom from tracking during Covid, and then grabbed their phones

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2021-07-05 22:00:03

Though Covid-19 restrictions have eased — for now, at least — and the masks have come off, we should not forget all those red-blooded, liberty-loving Americans who were ripping their masks off and fighting with store employees in Costco, Target and Walmart last year and saw themselves as patriots, battling a repressive state authority like China. Fox News commentators this year have regularly turned the notion of vaccine passports into a “Democrats are totalitarians” political talking point.

Meanwhile, a frighteningly large minority of Americans are exercising their right to refuse Covid-19 vaccinations because they still think the shots contain tracking microchips.

But Americans have already submitted themselves abjectly to a far more persistent intrusion: cryptic mass commercial data harvesting. Billions of bits of our personal data stream minute by minute — click by click — into a great underground sea that is tapped by private enterprise without anyone’s explicit consent.

Few Americans — and certainly not the anti-maskers and anti-vaccine passport types — would accept such intrusion by the government. But we submit without a fuss to much greater commercial privacy intrusions

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