Then she offered me a discount on the phone as well, if I would enter the information. Then she offered me a discounted warranty if I would enter my personal information onto the machine. The checkout clerk insisted that I click through a few screens on the credit card swipe machine, even though I was paying cash. So I withdrew $200 in cash and went to a store in Midtown Manhattan, which seemed suitably anonymous, to buy the phone. The best practice when buying a burner phone is to pay cash and buy it at a store far from home. This is a moment in my book where I'm trying to buy a prepaid phone to use to protect my privacy. JULIA ANGWIN: Yes, great, thanks for having me on. Do you want to just set this up and give us this little moment? I thought we'd begin with a reading from your book "Dragnet Nation," and this is a moment in your journey when you've decided you're going to go buy a prepaid cell phone. Well, Julia Angwin, welcome back to FRESH AIR. Her book is called "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance." She now writes for the independent news organization ProPublica. Julia Angwin spent 13 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Angwin has covered online privacy issues for years, and in her new book she describes the lengths she went to to try and escape the clutches of data scrapers, even to the point of creating a fake identity. Our guest, investigative reporter Julia Angwin, went a lot farther than that to try and shield herself from what she says is now an oppressive blanket of electronic data surveillance.įrom NSA sweeps to commercial services scraping our Web browsing habits, to all kinds of people tracking us through our smartphones, Angwinn says we've become a society where indiscriminate data gathering has become the norm. A survey a couple of years ago found that more than a third of us would rather clean a toilet bowl than create a new user name and password, which we're always being told we have to do to secure our online stuff. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week.
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