Android Security (Samsung)
You cannot harden a phone you have already been living on. This one starts at the recovery menu with a wipe and works forward tap by tap, written against a Samsung S22 running One UI 6.2.2.
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The Five Vectors of UTS
Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS) collects and analyzes data across five vectors: Online, Electronic, Visual-Physical, Financial, and Travel. Each vector reveals patterns and vulnerabilities, posing risks to privacy and autonomy. Understanding these vectors is vital to mitigating threats.
The Privacy Line
Most people cannot say what they consider private until someone makes them write it down. Draw that line on paper first, and every later decision about what to share gets a lot less improvised.
Search and You: Navigating UTS, Privacy, and the Quest for Private Searching
Your search history is the most honest thing you produce, full of questions you would never ask a person. Here is what happens to those queries after you press enter, and what it takes to stop.
UTS vs UDC
A camera counting vehicles and a camera reading the people in them are the same hardware. There is vocabulary for telling those two apart, and it matters considerably more than the equipment does.
Why Surveil: An Insight
Surveillance is rarely aimed at you personally. It is aimed at a category you happen to fall into, whether shopper, employee, or passerby. The motive is what tells you which sensors are pointed your way.
Data Science for UTS
The same methods used to aggregate you can be turned around and pointed at your own exposure. What that looks like in practice, and why it goes nowhere inside an organization that does not care.
UTS, Digital Privacy, and Data Science
A short piece, closer to a definition than an argument. If the term UTS keeps turning up here and you want the one-paragraph version of why it matters before reading further, start with this one.
Digital Tracking
Your digital shadow is not one thing following you. It is nine of them, and they hand each other your identity as you move. A reference list of the mechanisms, from the browser to the data broker.
Cyber Security VS Digital Privacy
Your employer's security program has a scope, and you are not inside it. The controls protecting the network sweep up your data as a side effect, which leaves an awkward question about who is actually looking out for you.