隐私危机：当他们对你了如指掌：数据公司和政府机构如何窃取个人资料、窥视隐私、破坏民主

What role does privacy play in the 21st century? For businesses, the basic business model is to exploit various detailed information about customers' lives. However, the law explicitly prohibits the collection, processing, or use of personal data to protect people's rights. Yet, in today's digital age, there is no privacy to speak of. After 9/11, the U.S. government increased its counter-terrorism awareness, but used this to infringe on people's privacy. Whether based on reality or imagination, once we have experienced a terrorist attack from an enemy, we quickly compromise with the government's unlimited "legal" surveillance methods, abandoning the democratic principle of checks and balances. The internet no longer allows people any privacy, because photos on Facebook can be subjected to biometric scans to obtain personal information. Records you leave behind can also be compared with other data, including conversations, preferences, friends, and other information, all of which may be read and used. Intentional data companies will further combine these databases with other applications, making you unknowingly hand over your most private personal data to unscrupulous individuals. Whistleblowers not only face life-threatening risks but also thankless tasks. Investigative journalists who support them in telling the truth also risk their careers and lives, trying to bring the truth to the public. However, those in power rarely appreciate their contributions.