People get offended whenever I’ve said that even random app developers are part of the problem. They can’t or won’t see that what we have arrived at is a Kafkesque world. It has been death by millions of papercuts. The collective rush to make an “app for everything” was in net effect building a global surveillance dragnet. It was inevitable the aggregate of data would turned into an authoritarian system of oppression.

All you wanted to do was make a 99 cents a sale for your basic phone app. You stuffed it with copy-paste analytics APIs that collect data from users. You insisted that these random data brokers would be 100% super honest. Good job.