The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him
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A surveillance CEO spending $200 million on ultra-secluded real estate is a stark illustration of the privacy asymmetry between data collectors and everyone else. Expect renewed scrutiny on how much personal exposure senior leaders are willing to tolerate from their own products and data practices.
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