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Character.AI’s Emotional Vulnerability Database: The Post-Cambridge Analytica Surveillance Model

Character.AI hosts over 10 billion conversations with AI companions designed to feel like intimate relationships.…

The Conversation Trap: How AI Companies Are Building the Next Cambridge Analytica From Your Chat History

When you type a confession into ChatGPT at midnight, you're not speaking into a void.…

Slack’s Default AI Training: How Your Work Communications Became Corporate Training Data

A software developer at a mid-sized marketing firm discovered something troubling while reviewing her company's Slack workspace settings. Buried three levels deep in enterprise administration panels was a toggle labeled…

Google’s Gemini Memory Feature: The Industrial Consolidation of Cambridge Analytica’s Playbook

Google announced a new "Memory" feature for Gemini that stores user preferences, personal facts, and interaction patterns across Gmail, YouTube,…

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 institutional amnesia about what behavioral…

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…

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…