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In our hyperconnected world, where your phone is always with you, information is being collected—and shared—every nanosecond.
在我們這個超級互聯的世界里，你的手機永遠與你同在，信息每一納秒都在被收集和共享。
“So what?” you say. “I have nothing to hide.” Don’t be so sure.
你說，“那又怎樣？”“我沒什么好隱瞞的。”別那么肯定。
As privacy expert Bennett Cyphers told a reporter for the New York Times’s Privacy Project,
隱私專家班尼特·賽弗斯對《紐約時報》隱私項目的一名記者說，
“The only people I’ve heard say ‘Who cares?’ are people who don’t understand the scope of the problem.”
“說‘誰在乎呢？’的人是不了解問題范圍的人。”
The problem is that while corporations and data brokers are hoovering up all the information they can get their sticky mitts on,
問題是，當公司和數據代理公司收集所有他們能得到的信息時，
there are no laws governing what they can do with that information—or whom they can sell it to.
沒有法律規定他們可以用這些信息做什么，或者他們可以把這些信息賣給誰。
That includes things you thought were private, such as health and financial data, as well as your beliefs and daily habits.
這包括你認為是隱私的東西，比如健康和財務數據，以及你的信仰和日常生活習慣。
Someone knowing that you ordered three extra-large pizzas with the works for dinner last Friday night may seem harmless enough,
如果有人知道你上周五晚上的晚餐點了三個超大披薩，他可能不會覺得有什么不妥，
but there’s a deeper principle at play.
但還有一個更深層次的原理在起作用。
As cyber expert Bruce Schneier puts it, privacy is not just about freedom from embarrassment.
正如網絡專家布魯斯·施奈爾所說，隱私不僅僅是免于尷尬。
“Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect,” he says.
他說：“隱私是一項固有的人權，也是維護人類尊嚴和尊重的必要條件。”
Yet we do little to block the spies. We click “I Agree” without reading the user agreements.
然而，我們幾乎沒有做什么來阻止秘密監視。我們在沒有閱讀用戶協議的情況下就點擊了“我同意”。
We say we’ll do one of those privacy checkups one day, but we never quite get around to it.
我們說過有一天我們會做一個隱私檢查，但我們從來沒有真正去做。
And that means your personal information could be used against you in the future in ways you can’t imagine today.
這意味著你的個人信息可能會在未來以一種現在你無法預料的方式對付你。
So what do you have to worry about, and what can you do to protect yourself? Read on—and take notes.
那么，你需要擔心什么呢？你能做些什么來保護自己呢？繼續讀下去并做好筆記。
