The New Social Security Numbers
Your email, phone, and payment card became universal identity keys the same way the SSN did, and the databases that verify you were built on data that already leaked
Topic
Data Brokers
A collection of 13 issues
The Five Principles of Digital Privacy
Every day, in a thousand small trades, you and everyone around you exchange data for convenience
Somebody Already Made the List of Who's Watching You
There's a myth that the people watching you are faceless. A volunteer-run project called Surveillance Watch demolishes it with the least glamorous tool imaginable.
You Cannot Out-Discipline Your Own Paperwork
What the Skripal poisoning reveals about digital privacy, and why the same machine that burned three GRU officers is pointed at you.
Mobile Data Collection Pyramid
Three layers, and they are not equally hard to reach. The top one is bought from data brokers. The bottom one needs a warrant. Knowing which layer a given adversary can reach tells you what is actually worth defending.
UTS Expanded: Netflow and Logistics
Expanding UTS: An In-Depth Look at Net Flow and Logistics Vectors reveals the growing reach of UTS across global communications and commerce. It explores how Net Flow Surveillance and Supply Chain Monitoring expose vulnerabilities, impact privacy, and shape international stability.
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
The Ultimate Anti-Tracking Guide for 2023 by Ghostery
Ghostery wrote a tracking primer worth the read; this is the condensed version. Most useful for the line it draws between tracking that makes a site work and tracking that follows you off it.
Car Privacy: The Unseen Threat on Wheels
The car in your driveway runs more cameras, microphones, and sensors than anything else you own, with a privacy policy to match. Mozilla called cars the worst product category it has ever reviewed.
Navigating the Landscape of Data Brokers: Safeguarding Your Personal Information
You never signed a contract with a data broker, never used their product, and cannot read your own file. They still know your address history, your purchases, and who lives with you.