The Hidden Agenda of Planned Obsolescence
Imagine this: You're staring at your shiny new smartphone, barely a year old, and suddenly it starts glitching. The battery dies in hours, apps crash,...
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Palantir and the Architecture of the Global Surveillance State
There's a company that most people have never heard of — despite the fact that it may know more about you than any other organization...
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The Nimitz Encounter: Navy Pilots Speak Out
It was supposed to be a routine training exercise. Two F/A-18F Super Hornets peeling off from the USS Nimitz carrier strike group, 40 miles off...
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PRISM: How the NSA Turned Silicon Valley Into a Mass Surveillance Network
In June 2013, a 29-year-old contractor named Edward Snowden walked out of an NSA facility in Hawaii with a trove of classified documents that would...
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Cambridge Analytica: How Psychological Profiling Was Weaponized to Win Elections
Imagine a system that could analyze your Facebook likes — not just what pages you follow, but the specific pattern of what you respond to,...
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Predictive Policing: When Algorithms Decide Who’s Guilty Before the Crime
In 2002, Steven Spielberg released Minority Report, a science fiction film in which a specialized police unit arrests people for murders they haven't committed yet,...
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The iPhone Surveillance Theory. Spying on you?
Picture this: You're scrolling through your feed late at night, oblivious to the sleek black rectangle in your pocket that's allegedly firing off your camera...
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PROMIS Software: The Spy Backdoor Allegedly Sold to Governments Worldwide
In the early 1980s, a small Washington D.C. software company called Inslaw Inc. developed what may have been the most sophisticated case-management software ever created...
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DARPA’s LifeLog and the Suspicious Birth of Facebook
On January 15, 2004, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — better known as DARPA — quietly cancelled a program called LifeLog. The project had...
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