Crap, I Forgot to Go Incognito!

[Commentary] What if Google posted your search history online? All of it, I mean—even the stuff you looked at years ago (or perhaps yesterday) in Incognito Mode. If that question doesn’t send a shiver down your spine, my guess is you’re probably not a Millennial. And to those Millennials who think that Incognito Mode truly protects your data by fully anonymizing your online browsing, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but—that isn’t really the case.

While this article is a principled stand in favor of online privacy, it’s also a call to Millennials to demand more from the businesses we interface with, again and again, and the government we trust to secure our freedom and liberty—and a call to demand more of each other by taking simple, well-established steps to protect ourselves.

[Dillon Roseen is a Millenial Public Policy Fellow at New America]