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I Spy With My Digital Eye: Safety Cameras

17 May 2026 7 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

One Query. Thousands of cameras responding. Let’s talk about that. Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or outdoors, in the bath or bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres insi...

AI Agents Are The New Ad Network (And You Didn't Consent)

20 Mar 2026 7 minute read 0 comments Learn With Hatty

Not that long ago, AI chatbots felt like a quiet little corner of the internet where you could ask weird questions without being immediately sold a mattress or a crypto card. Then, in 2026, the switch quietly flipped. OpenAI started testing ads direc...

Silent Wars: The Acoustic Kitty

13 Feb 2026 4 minute read 4 comments Investigator515

The sixties were apparently a crazy time. Aviation would go through rapid iterations and changes, while overall, big money would be thrown at Cold War projects in what was seen to be a race for survival. One of the biggest beneficiaries of said money...

Firmware Hardware & Ownership: What A Predicament

27 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Remote firmware upgrades provide convenience with a disturbing twist There’s no debating that there have been some absolutely epic battles regarding privacy in recent years. With social media changing the dynamic around things like privacy and owners...

The Privacy Arms Race: Beating Big Brother in a Mortal Kombat Style

3 Dec 2023 10 minute read 0 comments Skynet is here

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital privacy, a silent battle rages on. This battle, akin to an arms race, pits privacy-enhancing technologies against tools designed to erode them. Understanding this dynamic is crucial, especially in an er...

Police Cameras are Providing Facial Recognition Tracking to Criminals in Moscow

17 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Criminals are offering stalking services, through the use of Moscow’s camera system, to identify and track people for $200.  Customers provide a picture and the criminals will return a report of where that person has been, where they frequent, and m...

Why Snowden Is Still In Russia

1 Nov 2020 3 minute read 2 comments nivekbr

A reminder, in light of recent coverage of them granting him permanent residency   I recently saw articles from Forbes and The Register about Russia granting permanent residency to Edward Snowden. I couldn’t help but notice that they left out a coupl...

Surveillance Capitalism and the Internet Era – Why We Need Brave! Final Part

10 Apr 2020 4 minute read 9 comments paragism

Cover Image Source - Altered by the author Surveillance capitalism is about commodification of personal information. Social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff coined the term. Capitalism is fundamentally aggressive in nature and aggressive capitalism has s...

Digital Transparency in China Meets New Heights, Potentially Increasing Crypto Adoption

14 Oct 2019 3 minute read 0 comments Cryptos.com

If we could award the title of ‘mother-machine’ country, there is only one viable candidate at the moment, and it should be no surprise that it’s the People’s Republic of China.  The Asian superpower went through a tremendous economic and political t...