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 Equifax breach and its enduring consequences
The Unveiling of a Digital Catastrophe It was a typical day in September 2017 when news broke, sending ripples of…
How Fitbit data has been used in criminal investigations
In a world where technology is interwoven into our daily lives, it's fascinating—and perhaps a little unsettling—to see how it…
How Pokémon Go gathered location data on a large scale
The world of augmented reality felt like a science fiction dream until one day in July 2016, when Pokémon Go…
The Clearview AI controversy and the ethics of facial recognition
The Clearview AI controversy is one of those modern-day dilemmas that seems to tug at the very fabric of our…