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…

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How Fitbit data has been used in criminal investigations

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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…

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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…

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