Every time we swipe in at the train station, make a purchase at the grocery store or walk by a bank, some element of our personal data is collected. You could be alone on a backpacking trip, making no contact with the outside world, and that smartphone turned off in your pocket still would use global positioning systems to track your every move.
We are living in a time of information overload, and sometimes it becomes difficult to remember where we have left cyber-footprints.
For 48 hours, I tracked exactly who was taking my information digitally and how it could be used. During this time, I spent one day in Washington and the next day traveling by air to Chicago.
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