Privacy-Eroding Corruption Is Literally Killing U.S. Troops

I've written for years about how the U.S. is too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law for the internet era. As a result a vast interconnected web of telecoms, app makers, and online service companies now collect and monetize your every movement and online behavior, with zero serious accountability or oversight.Your phone, browser, apps, watch, and broadband provider all track which sites you visit down to the millisecond. Your smart electricity meter tracks your daily power consumption. Your car tracks not only your driving habits and biometric data, it pulls data off your phone to monetize everything else.That data is then funneled into a global coalition of dodgy and unregulated data brokers, who sell access to any dipshit with two nickels to rub together. Including governments (foreign and domestic), stalkers, right wing extremists, cops, people pretending to be cops, hackers, and everybody else. Corporate America and captured politicians created a hyper-surveillance commercial…