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.
Topic
Cross-Platform
A collection of 45 issues
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.
Why Personal Privacy Matters to Corporations
Nobody finishes annual security training feeling motivated. But people will work to protect themselves — and the habits that do it happen to harden the employer too. An argument for pointing training at the person, not the org chart.
Digital Privacy - It matters
Free services are not free; the price is quoted in data you never see itemized. What ubiquitous technical surveillance actually collects on an ordinary day, and where you still hold leverage over it.
Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance
UTS is not a tool someone points at you. It is the ambient condition of a sensor-saturated life — the badge reader, the car, the watch on your wrist — and the only real lever is what you emit from day 0.
SparkPress - Privacy and Security News
A snapshot of what privacy news looked like in October 2023, back when passkeys were still a novelty and the first White House order on AI had just landed. Short, dated, and left exactly as it was published.
Two-Factor Authentication Devices for 2023
A 2023 snapshot of the hardware key market, when the decision came down to price, durability, and whether you could read the firmware. The specific models have aged; the reasoning for picking one has not.