How to Say No: Everyday Tactics to Take Back Your Privacy

Between the face scan at the airport and the cookie banner you rage-clicked through before finishing your coffee, you lost another inch of control over your own life.

It did not feel like a big deal, just a few seconds shaved off your day, but that is how it always happens. The great privacy heist of the twenty-first century is not conducted by hackers in dark rooms. It is carried out by cheerful pop-ups and bored clerks saying, “Just look at the camera, please.”