Jamal Awil

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Uncommon names, difficult-to-pronounce cities and towns, hyperlocal oddities. [fact]

Within the recordings themselves, users willingly surrender personal information—information that is especially valuable in these review processes because they are so specific. Uncommon names, difficult-to-pronounce cities and towns, hyperlocal oddities.… I heard people share their full names to initiate a call or offer up location-sensitive information while scheduling a doctor’s appointment… the recordings capture people saying things they’d never want heard, regardless of anonymity.… There isn’t much to keep people who are listening to these recordings from sharing them.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 820