The Illusion of Privacy in Digital Tracking

You are explicitly agreeing to let eight hundred and fifty-two different companies watch

your every move when you click that blue button. It starts with a massive lie in bold

letters claiming your privacy comes first, but then you scroll down and realize

you are the product being sold to an army of third-party vendors. I actually took

the time to read the raw data dump behind a standard Microsoft cookie consent form,

and the scale of the surveillance is actually dystopian. They are not just remembering your

language settings. They are actively scanning your device characteristics to identify you.

They are logging your precise location within a few hundred meters. There are six hundred