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The real costs of cheap surveillance

  • Written by Jonathan Weinberg, Professor of Law, Wayne State University
imageWho's collecting your data, and what are they using your data for?Brian A. Jackson/Shutterstock.com

Surveillance used to be expensive. Even just a few years ago, tailing a person’s movements around the clock required rotating shifts of personnel devoted full-time to the task. Not any more, though.

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