#surveillance

You’ll immediately stop feeling watched

An open source clone of photoshop was just released, called “Photocraft”. It was vibe coded based on Adobe’s public specifications and observed behavior, and while it contains no proprietary Adobe code,

AI can turn financial data into surveillance at scale. The EU’s crypto Travel Rule creates a fresh trail linking identities to Bitcoin transfers. What could that enable? Read the full article on Popular

Actually this video is outdated. I now have hundreds of phone numbers. 😎

"Verification" is often just a polite word for data harvesting. Check out this week's newsletter (Subscribing really helps us out!)

Companies lie to you about why they need your data. They tell you it's for "verification." It's not. It's data harvesting with an official-sounding label. Here's what happened when I signed up

Dallas put AI cameras on garbage trucks. More than 21,000 properties were flagged and given “blight scores.” The bigger question is what happens when code enforcement becomes cheap, automated, and everywhere.

There’s a black van out on my street right now. Should I be worried?

I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state. Check out this week's newsletter (Subscribing really helps us out!)

We might think that we have nothing to hide. But tomorrow we might have no WHERE to hide. We need to rethink this mass surveillance system we're building.

The surveillance state is here. Flock cameras track your every move. Palantir builds digital dossiers on everyone. ICE buys your location data in bulk. Your devices are being turned against you with mandatory

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