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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A collection of 45 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.
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.
Identity Unmasked: The Double-Edged Sword of Biometrics
A password can be changed after a breach. A fingerprint, an iris, a palm vein pattern cannot. That asymmetry is what makes biometrics the most convenient login you will ever use and the most permanent thing you can hand over.
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.