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equipment, refrigerators, doorbells, and so on. The rule of one function
per single, one-way device kept things simple and largely contained within our homes. We watched TV, vacuumed the carpet, and set an indoor tempera- ture using devices dedicated uniquely to these functions. Nobody else knew when and how we did these things unless we wanted them to know.
Times change ... constantly
Of course, things have changed. Take phones, for example. We still use them to make phone calls. But we also use them for written communications, such as emails or text messages. We use them to listen to music, watch movies, sports, and TV shows, monitor our health, manage our finances, play games, and buy things in stores. We can also do a lot of these things on home computers, tablets, even our watches. To be sure, we did all of the same things before the internet and
multiple computing devices pervaded our homes; we just did them all indi- vidually. And now we also do things we never even imagined doing before the internet: use social media, record and share images and videos from al- most anywhere we go, and constantly transmit our geographical location to
the ever-watchful cell towers sited within a few miles of almost every street corner in the country.
Creating data 24/7
Wait, what? The internet knows where we are when we use our phones? And other connected devices? Yes it does,
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