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UTS

A collection of 30 issues

Search and You: Navigating UTS, Privacy, and the Quest for Private Searching

Your search history is the most honest thing you produce, full of questions you would never ask a person. Here is what happens to those queries after you press enter, and what it takes to stop.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Interplay of Four Layers of Attribution in the Digital Age

“Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?” is attribution — someone reads an attribute and draws a conclusion. The same process runs on everything you emit, across four layers that cross-check each other.

Digital Identity: Are you in control?

Building a picture of someone used to take an implant and a case officer. Now it takes a purchase order — and most of what gets bought was assembled from things people posted about themselves.