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Most folks assume that if someone disappears, it’s because they’re running from something shameful. They picture fugitives, tax evaders, or criminals ducking through the shadows. But the truth is far less cinematic—and far more human. People vanish because they’re scared. Because they’re starting over. Because they’re escaping abuse. Because the life they built turned out to be a cage. Some people disappear to survive. Some to be free. I wrote this book for both. I’ve met women who vanished to escape violent relationships and never looked back. I’ve talked with men who ...

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy.