As a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and ProPublica, Julia Angwin has spent several years addressing the surveillance of our online activities. Dragnet Nation is the story of how she set out to erase as much of her digital footprint as possible--not, she explains early on, to make it impossible for law enforcement agencies to track her, but simply to make them (and corporations) really work to find the information. We talk about the steps she took to avoid email providers who scan our messages to serve up "relevant" ads and search engines that remember everything you've ever looked up, and what the rest of us can do to minimize our online exposure.
