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GDPR’s Anti-Profiling Clause: Five Years of Regulatory Theater While Psychographic Targeting Thrives

GDPR Article 22 was supposed to be the legal kill switch for Cambridge Analytica-style psychographic…

Britain’s Post-Brexit Privacy Collapse: How the UK Abandoned Cambridge Analytica’s Lessons

The UK's decision to weaken GDPR compliance post-Brexit represents something more dangerous than regulatory rollback—it's…

The FTC’s $5 Billion Facebook Settlement: Why Zuckerberg’s Punishment Actually Validated Cambridge Analytica’s Business Model

The Federal Trade Commission's 2019 settlement with Facebook—a record $5 billion fine—was presented as historic accountability. In reality, it was a regulatory surrender that proved Cambridge Analytica's core insight: behavioral…

California’s Privacy Law Became a Surveillance Blueprint: How CPRA Amendments Preserved the Data Extraction Machine

California's Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) was supposed to correct the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—to close loopholes and strengthen…

The EU AI Act’s Hidden Pipeline: How ‘Research’ Exemptions Legalized Cambridge Analytica’s Playbook

The European Union's AI Act, hailed as groundbreaking regulation of artificial intelligence, contains a crucial loophole that Cambridge Analytica would…

ProtonMail’s Logging Trap: How Privacy Theater Enables the Post-Cambridge Analytica Surveillance State

ProtonMail promised absolute privacy. The company marketed itself as unhackable, encrypted-by-default, based in Switzerland where privacy laws supposedly shield users…

Signal’s Cryptocurrency Gambit: How Privacy Theater Enables Financial Profiling

Signal's integration of MobileCoin—a privacy-focused cryptocurrency—appears to be a natural extension of the encrypted messaging platform's privacy ethos. Users can…