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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…

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…

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 have exploited masterfully. Buried in Article 5's prohibitions on behavioral…

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…

Apple’s Journal App: Privacy-Washing Hides On-Device Behavioral Profiling

Apple just launched Journal, a wellness app that invites users to document their daily thoughts, feelings, and experiences. The marketing…

Grok’s Consent Violation: How Elon Musk Weaponized Cambridge Analytica’s Data Playbook

Elon Musk called Cambridge Analytica's methods "deeply unethical" in 2018. Six years later, his AI company xAI is deploying the…