For a recent Times article, the reporter Kashmir Hill followed her husband’s every move using location trackers. She knew where he was at all times — what she didn’t learn, though, was what he was doing. Read about his experience, with some notes from Kashmir.
Kashmir Hill recently published an article in The Times in which she detailed how she digitally followed her husband’s movements for a month using GPS and other location trackers.
I am that husband.
As a privacy advocate, I spend a lot of time thinking about surveillance — not usually the spousal variety, but the kind conducted by the government. I have written about how authorities track people using “metadata,” the information created by our devices, to learn whom you are talking to, and where you are and when. This data can sometimes be as revealing as our most private discussions.
When Kashmir, a technology reporter for The Times, asked for my consent to track me, I was prepared for her to violate my privacy for the sake of journalism. But what I was not prepared for was how easily my actions could be misinterpreted.
