Imagine visiting webpages on getting out of a speeding ticket one day then seeing your car insurance rates go up a few months later. It can and is being used to determine if you can get health or life insurance, what price to charge you at online stores, your job application status, and much more. It's often bundled with your offline data like your purchases,location, credit history, and personal identity and this data is sold on data exchanges every single day. Your browsing history reveal a lot about who you are. Why should I worry about my browsing not being private? Privacy is essential to all of those ends. We believe in free investigation, free minds, and a free internet. Through internalized self-censorship, this creates a kind of prison in our minds. When you're under surveillance or being tracked, you think twice before investigating certain ideas or visiting certain websites. We believe privacy is essential to a free internet. What you browse is no one’s business but your own. We believe that what you browse online should be private.
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