It’s relatively easy for the US government to follow its citizens’ digital trails. And most of the time, you will never know.

Author Archives: Theodoric Meyer
Theodoric Meyer is an intern at ProPublica. He was previously an intern at The New York Times and The Seattle Times and has written about everything from triceratops to the data centers Google and Facebook operate in rural Oregon. He has also reported from Madrid for GlobalPost. He is a graduate of McGill University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.