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When intimate data requires distant infrastructure

My smart watch tracks my sleep and uploads the data every night and I have started wondering what it means that my dreams are being processed by servers I will never see in places I will never go.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal information becomes entangled with industrial systems in ways that make privacy and simplicity nearly impossible.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Energy consumption of data centers?”

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