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.
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Cross-Platform
A collection of 55 issues
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.
The Trackers Are One Machine
Nine tracking methods sounds like nine problems to solve one at a time. They are inputs to a single engine whose only job is to decide that all of them are you, and in 2026 that engine moved to where your blockers cannot see it
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.