#surveillance

"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

Two crypto recovery tools worth bookmarking. Check out this week's newsletter (Subscribing really helps us out!)

It feels like I am the only sane person trapped in an insane asylum sometimes, but there are glimmers of hope. Recently, the wider public seems to have finally become aware of how pervasive the corporate

Das EU-Parlament hat letzte Woche den Weg für Trilog-Verhandlung für die Einführung des Digitalen Euros geebnet. Und dann gab es noch eine extrem kontroverse Abstimmung die temporäre, "freiwillige"

Going to the doctor didn't always mean 2.2 million entities getting your medical data without your knowledge. What happened to medical privacy?