...where everybody knows your name.

And your Social Security Number and every address you’ve ever lived at.

Not long ago, students in Boston demonstrated that with camera-equipped glasses and a single frame of a passenger on the Boston metro, you could instantly see a shocking level of (personal) detail about any stranger.

There’s a shady network of data broker sites out there, making it nearly impossible for you to delete this data. Seeing what’s out there when you search your name will send chills down anyone’s spine.

There are categories of truly terrifying devices that exist today that the public is largely unaware of, eroding our privacy by the second.

In a world where 2-factor authentication is a must, biometric passkeys can replace passwords, why is an American’s social security number still just a 9-digit string? Is this the best we can do in 2025?

We must demand more from our public institutions and replace the outdated systems that define our lives. Or else, we might as well change all our passwords to “password” and stop pretending.