surveillance

Ring and Flock are Trying to Create a Sensorveillance State
Free and subsidized doorbell cameras and facial recognition systems leave everyone less free in the end.
 • Carey Lening
The Ladder to Nowhere, Part 2: OpenAI's Complete Picture of You
OpenAI is building a ladder to comprehensive surveillance. Each rung delivers value—ChatGPT, health tools, wearables, BCIs—while collecting everything…
 • Carey Lening
The Ladder to Nowhere: How OpenAI Plans to Learn Everything About You
ChatGPT Health is a small part of a much larger plan to learn everything about you. In this post, I talk about what's driving them and how they might…
 • Carey Lening
Political Grok-Pocrisy
Grok is spewing out CSAM on X, and yet politicians are happily still using the platform anyway. The problem is, they're also passing draconian laws.
 • Carey Lening
Privacy Disasters: Microsoft Keeps Stepping in It
Microsoft releases the Torment Nexus v. 2.
 • Carey Lening
Surveillance is Still Surveillance, No Matter What You Call It
A bit of good news on the EU's controversial 'Spy in your pocket' legislation, and what you can do to help kill this thing.
 • Carey Lening
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