Ban surveillance

Surveillance advertising's data collection makes people vulnerable fraud.

Doctorow says we should ban surveillance advertising. I say we should ban the surveillance, period. Regardless of what the surveiller's motivation is, collecting personal data in a database harms people.

For instance, suppose the data is not used for advertising but is used to set what you pay for medical insurance. If the data collected from a fitbit includes _where you are_ -- and it can hardly fail to do so -- that is a grave attack on your privacy.