The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

Google, posing as a privacy advocate, launched a campaign for a new internet protocol that would prevent “header injections” such as Verizon’s PrecisionID.127 Privacy expert and journalist Julia Angwin and her colleagues at ProPublica reported that similar tracking IDs were becoming standard throughout the telecom industry. As one ad executive put it, “What we’re excited about is the carrier-level ID, a higher-level recognition point that lets us track with certainty.…”