What happens to privacy when the physical world starts collecting, communicating, and analyzing infinite data that could dog an individual forever? In a 2014 presentation at Webstock, Maciej Ceglowski ranted about Google’s acquisition of Nest, a maker of luxury thermostats with sensors that collect data about rooms. His old thermostat didn’t come with a privacy policy. This smart thermostat could report back to Google, maybe even eat his leftover pizza like a sketchy roommate.56 Many of us are already uncomfortable with a social media environment that tracks our whereabouts and barrages us
...more
