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MembersThe Secret Life of the Signals Around You
The gadgets you never think about are the ones broadcasting your identity to anyone with the right sensor.
MembersHow to Fly Without Feeding the Surveillance Machine
The gap between “mandatory for travel” and “harvested because nobody stopped it” is bigger than any airline wants you to know.
MembersYour Town for $300M: Surveillance State, On Sale
Buried beneath the law-and-order slogans is a procurement list that doubles as the blueprint for permanent surveillance.
MembersWhat to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push
The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would run on.
MembersThe US Government Built a Tracking Bazaar and Adversaries Went Shopping
The government spent years defending a market that sells anyone’s location to anyone with money and the bill just came due in a war zone.
MembersStop Renting Access to Your Own Movie Collection
Running it yourself means a price you set, a door only you hold the key to, and infrastructure that answers to no one but you.
MembersThe Strange Truth Behind The New WhatsApp Privacy Lawsuits
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
MembersWhen an App Download Turns Into a Government Record
The DOJ’s legal theory is that clicking “I Agree” on a standard app privacy policy means you volunteered to be identified by the federal government.
MembersThe School Spy Boom Nobody Asked For
Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a teaching problem.
MembersThe Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on.
MembersThe US Government Wants Agents Wearing Face Scanners
The government is building glasses that turn a glance into a federal database query and the deployment date is already set.
MembersBrave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here’s Who Should Care
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.