Venmo's social feed displays millions of peer-to-peer transactions in real-time—who paid whom, when, and ostensibly for what. Users see payments…
Perplexity AI's rapid ascent—now valued at $3 billion—masks a fundamental surveillance architecture that psychological profiling…
Spotify's AI DJ feature recently expanded to analyze listener mood in real-time, automatically adjusting song…
In 2019, Discord positioned itself as the anti-Facebook: a privacy-conscious alternative where gamers could chat without corporate surveillance. The company's CEO explicitly rejected algorithmic feeds and targeted advertising. Six years…
Google announced a new "Memory" feature for Gemini that stores user preferences, personal facts, and interaction patterns across Gmail, YouTube,…
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 Federal Trade Commission's 2019 settlement with Facebook—a record $5 billion fine—was presented as historic accountability. In reality, it was…
California's Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) was supposed to correct the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—to close loopholes and strengthen…