Cell phones now regularly track their users’ locations, monitor their health habits and keep tabs on their schedules and preferences—a series of tools that could also become a threat to privacy.
An increasing reliance on technology and mobile devices has raised more questions about data privacy and whether it risks becoming a luxury.
In a poll ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, TIME asks what readers think about digital privacy. TIME Editor-in-Chief Nancy Gibbs will present the results in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 19.
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