Case Studies
WhatsApp Channels: Meta’s Trojan Horse for Encrypted Platform Surveillance
WhatsApp's "Channels" feature launched in 2023 as a broadcast tool for one-to-many messaging. Meta positioned…
DuckDuckGo’s Microsoft Carve-Out: How “Privacy” Search Engines Inherited Cambridge Analytica’s Behavioral Compromise
DuckDuckGo markets itself as the privacy-conscious alternative to Google—a search engine that doesn't track users,…
ChatGPT and Claude: How AI Stores Conversations for Training Data
The rise of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude has fundamentally transformed how we interact…
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The birth of surveillance capitalism: how Cambridge Analytica exposed the business of human data
What is surveillance capitalism? The term was popularized by Shoshana Zuboff in her landmark book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.…
The psychology of persuasion: how Cambridge Analytica hacked human behavior
Understanding the mind behind the click Every digital action — every like, share, and comment — is a clue. Cambridge…
The end of privacy: are we entering a world without secrets?
The illusion of privacy We like to think that privacy is a matter of choice — that by adjusting settings…
The rise of digital activism: fighting back after Cambridge Analytica
The birth of a movement When the Cambridge Analytica revelations broke in 2018, millions of users realized that the platforms…