Andrew Guthrie Ferguson — Your Data Will Be Used Against You
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reveals how digital self-surveillance tools are being weaponized by police and the justice system against citizens.
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Your Fitbit data, your Alexa recordings, your location history — Ferguson shows how the tools we use to track our own lives are being turned into evidence. Essential reading for anyone with a smartphone.
The devices we carry and the services we use generate an extraordinary record of our daily lives — one that law enforcement has learned to exploit. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a law professor who has spent years studying the intersection of technology and criminal justice, exposes how digital self-surveillance tools are being weaponized against the very people who use them.
Ferguson’s argument is not abstract: he documents specific cases where fitness trackers, smart speakers, location data, and social media have been used as evidence in ways their users never anticipated or consented to. The implications extend far beyond criminal justice into questions about what privacy means in an era of ambient data collection.
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