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GET STARTED WITH… DEVICE TRACKING

Tracking doesn’t, it’s fair to say, have the finest reputation. Few of us actively seek it out, but none of us can avoid it.

The web’s biggest entities keep tabs on you everywhere you go online — something which has been one of the most powerful drivers in the rise of VPNs. Automated facial recognition threatens to follow us around on the streets (do we wear full–face masks next?) and tomorrow’s connected cars will, for all their new smarts, no doubt report back on our activities on the road. Even your phone collects a whole host of data;

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