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ENTREVISTA "After covering online privacy issues for years at The Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin asked what a lot of us are thinking: Is it possible to be an active participant in our increasingly connected world and avoid leaving a damaging digital trail, or at least keep a little of our privacy? In her new book, Dragnet Nation, Angwin describes how she spent 12 months changing her habits and using technological tools to protect herself from all the data-collecting dragnets that surround us-an experiment I'm all too familiar with, having done much the same for a PopMech cover story. Angwin quit Google, carried a burner phone, and lined her wallet with metallic film. I called her up to see if we could compare notes on our respective quests for privacy, security, and freedom."