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When we started sharing our privacy journey on X and on our blog at https://incognitocat.me/, we were surprised by how quickly sponsorship offers arrived. Our original goal was simple: after the major 2024 National Public Data breach, we wanted to share the same privacy tools and techniques we use ourselves. We had already been talking about this with family, friends, and coworkers. We even gave a few talks to senior groups and church groups. But we hoped to reach more people so they could see what is at stake and learn practical steps to protect themselves. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"Your information is collected, stored for a long time, and often kept with weak protection. Companies do this because the data is valuable to them, not because it is always valuable to you. Shoshana Zuboff, a professor emerita at Harvard Business School, explores how this system developed in her book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism". You do not need to read the book to grasp the core…