Simone Varlette

Simone worked in network security for six years before she realized the bigger threat wasn't coming from outside corporate firewalls. She now writes about the companies that have built entire business models on the quiet collection of personal data — who they sell it to, which regulators look the other way, and how the legal language in terms-of-service agreements is specifically designed to be unreadable. She is not particularly interested in being reassured that everything is fine.