Rutgers University professor Hasan Elahi maintains a website tracking his every movement, so the government doesn’t have to. Tracking Transience has been up since 2007, when he explained the idea of pre-emptive profiling to Wired Magazine:
“I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away,” he says, grinning as he sips his venti Black Eye. Elahi relishes upending the received wisdom about surveillance. The government monitors your movements, but it gets things wrong. You can monitor yourself much more accurately. Plus, no ambitious agent is going to score a big intelligence triumph by snooping into your movements when there’s a Web page broadcasting the Big Mac you ate four minutes ago in Boise, Idaho. “It’s economics,” he says. “I flood the market.”
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