In the prescient 1998 movie Enemy of the State, the late Gene Hackman plays a surveillance expert who believes the idea of total privacy is an illusion: Everyone has given away their personal information so much so that anyone with the will and technological know-how could uncover any of our secrets or sensitive information. His character was right, of course, and this reality presents a challenge for anyone who seeks such privacy in the modern world. What extremes must be taken to not be tracked? What life must one live? Is such a thing even possible anymore?

Perhaps Justin Piasecki, the screenwriter for the new film Relay, sees these questions as a challenge, because his protagonist exists outside the digital mainstream and has kept his identity a secret—at great personal cost. Relay’s

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