Convenience Is the Price Tag on Your Privacy
Friction used to protect us. We paid good money to get rid of it.
Nobody has ever woken up and decided to be tracked. Think about how strange that would be. No one opens an app store looking for the best way to let a company log which room they're in, who visits them, and what time they usually fall asleep.
What people look for is a faster way into an app. A doorbell that shows them the delivery guy. A phone that unlocks when they glance at it. A speaker that sets a timer while their hands are covered in flour.
Surveillance comes in the box. It isn't the product. It's the packing material, and nobody reads the packing material.
The usual way to tell this story is as a trade: you give up some data, you get a free service. That framing is too generous. A trade implies...
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