I recently read Means of Control by Byron Tau. It does an excellent job of explaining the evolution of commercial tracking of consumers to deliver advertisements with increasing precision. It also describes how the United States government has begun buying this publicly available data to spy on people.

I found myself appalled by the scope of surveillance employed against American citizens and decided that this was a thing that needed to be resisted. I don’t imagine that anything I’m doing will have any significant impact on the larger world. I do believe that resistance matters if only to keep a spark of human spirit alive.