Understanding the Power Behind Modern Data

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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 from state surveillance. Then a French climate activist discovered the…

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…

Nextdoor’s Political Underground: How Neighborhood Apps Enable Street-Level Campaign Manipulation

The 2024 Colorado House District 7 race revealed a new frontier in political microtargeting when internal documents from Republican strategist…