Spy Pixels - Email Tracking
Two-thirds of non-spam email carries one. You never click anything to set it off — opening the message is the entire interaction, and the sender learns roughly where you were when you did.
Topic
Explainer
A collection of 45 issues
Privacy Fatigue
You have to get it right every day. A hunter only has to be right once. That asymmetry wears people down, and the research says it is exhaustion, not indifference, that makes them stop trying.
Privacy Search Engine
Every query you type is a statement about what you want, what you fear, and what you are about to buy. Ghostery makes the case for an engine that keeps none of it; this is a brief note and a link out.
Privacy meet Security
Three questions, in order, before any tool or setting: what are you protecting, how long does it need to hold, and what data gives it away. Everything else on this site builds on those three.
Spark Forge is live!
The first post on the site, kept as the record of where this started. Two sentences of intent, no technical content, and a fair statement of what the rest of the archive is for.