The Retention Economy: Kept at All Costs
· 19 min read · 11 sources
A recommendation feed is not trying to entertain you. It is trying to keep you watching, and it drifts towards whatever version of you is easiest to hold on to.
Surveillance & Privacy
Surveillance capitalism, personal data practices, privacy-by-design failures, and living in a monitored world.
The Illusion of Delete
· 13 min read · 3 sources
We demand systems that never lose data, load instantly, and obey every law. Deletion fails not because companies are evil, but because we asked the impossible.
VPNs Are a Symptom, Not a Feature: Why the Internet Is Broken
· 13 min read · 6 sources
VPNs solve real problems, but needing them signals deeper failures. We use them to patch insecure networks, surveillance capitalism, and artificial access barriers.
EU Chat Control: If Privacy Is Outlawed, only Outlaws Have Privacy
· 10 min read · 4 sources
The EU Chat Control proposal scans everyone's private messages before sending, shifting from targeted investigation to pre-emptive monitoring of all citizens.
Digitalisation: Lost Privacy by Design
· 11 min read · 8 sources
Digitalisation turns public records from manual lookups into mass extraction, exposing your name, address, and finances to anyone willing to query them.
You Are the Product: Two Decades of Giving up Data Control
· 11 min read · 4 sources
Twenty years of digital convenience built detailed profiles of our health, finances, and relationships, then sold them to advertisers and governments on request.