A major part of the book follows Angwin’s year-long attempt to escape these dragnets. She tests various defensive strategies, including:
The danger that constant surveillance leads to "internalized" self-censorship, where individuals stop expressing unique thoughts for fear of being watched. Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, ...
Angwin defines a "dragnet" as a system that sweeps up information about everyone regardless of suspicion. Falling costs for data storage and massive increases in processing power have made it cheap for institutions to keep records on nearly every moment of our lives. A major part of the book follows Angwin’s