I’ve been telling you  for years  that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial institutions, insurance brokers, employers, and, well, basically  everything about who you are and every single thing you do in private or in public  is studied and logged by forces you can’t see or control. Until now I’ve soft-pedaled that, for two reasons: I hate to see you cry; and I thought if the only thing that happens is that we get targeted advertising, that’s not so bad. I was wrong. I underestimated the…