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Is Digital Privacy A Luxury?

As it turns outs, privacy is not an inalienable right, and, to get it, U.S. consumers will have to pay an ever increasing premium. Yes, that’s the new reality of American life, according to reporter and author Julia Angwin. “In our data-saturated economy, privacy is becoming a luxury good,” Angwin writes in the opinion pages of The New York Times. “After all, as the saying goes, if you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product … And currently, we aren’t paying for very much of our technology.”
           

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