Bad Wedding by Elise Faber

Author:Elise Faber [Faber, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-946140-70-8
Publisher: Elise Faber

Fifteen

Molly

She watched Jackson walk Dan to the door, the two of them continuing to talk about the additional security from the company that Dan recommended.

Apparently, they were a mix of former government agents and military personnel who specialized in tricky situations like this. Not at all like a celebrity seeking a bodyguard, which Molly would have probably ended up with if she’d done the hiring, but people who had serious experience in dealing with bad guys like the mafia.

The pizza had been delivered—well, picked up by one of Dan’s team to make sure it was safe—and they’d eaten as they’d discussed the additional security measures.

Jackson was going to continue to stick close to her, working from the bakery so Dan’s team only had to cover one place. They were going to hire some additional protection and keep the microphones and cameras in place. And she’d given over her keys so his team could install some devices there, just in case the mafia came looking and happened to reveal something useful.

She liked the idea of cameras and microphones in her business and home about as much as she liked burning a batch of rolls, but it was a necessary inconvenience and so she was going with it.

Some part of her kept expecting to break down, to freak out about the fact that, for all intents and purposes, she was being followed by the mob.

A scary, Russian branch of it.

And yet, she was somehow holding it together.

Probably because Dan and Jackson had looped her in. She knew as much about the ongoing investigation as Jackson—which was basically that they wanted his program so they could use it to support their illegal businesses by selling private information and blackmailing prominent users. But just as Jackson had refused to allow the government backdoor access to the data, he wasn’t letting the mob have it.

He’d turned everything physically to do with that program—all the servers, the computers, the storage—over to Dan’s group, and any work was conducted remotely, carefully shrouded behind some seriously intense firewalls.

She had to admit that she hadn’t quite understood all of what Jackson’s company did until that point.

She’d known it was technical, knew that four years ago while he and his team had begun garnering more attention in the tech world, that it was valuable. She just hadn’t understood exactly how much so.

He’d basically figured out a way to glean tiny bits of data from users and to monetize that.

Most of the time it was fairly innocuous, like whether or not someone was thinking about purchasing a specific brand of shoes, or if they preferred a pug to a corgi when searching for puppy videos. But it could also be used to follow other user trends—was someone at risk of being radicalized or thinking about hurting themselves or someone else.

Information that was valuable and could save lives.

But also some intense big brother shit, especially if someone who didn’t have their users’ best interests in mind got involved and starting gleaning data that was a serious breach of privacy.

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