I made a living doing airborne telemetry and instrumentation for almost a decade. Those words, in my professional context, meant that I was an engineer who desi

I made a living doing airborne telemetry and instrumentation for almost a decade. Those words, in my professional context, meant that I was an engineer who designed and operationally supported systems to gather data of all kinds (avionics buses, physical transducer readings), record that data, and transmit a crucial subset of that data to the ground for real-time monitoring by engineers. But "telemetry" and "instrumentation" have meanings in the tech world, and it's sad that one of the meanings carried in the "telemetry" suitcase is "privacy invasion".