surveillance

Field Guide to AI, Security and Cybercrime

• AI Agents Do Not Sleep: The End of the Right to Disconnect

  Autonomous AI agents create a permanent, silent workstream that makes the legal right to disconnect impossible to enforce.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Client-Side Scanning Explained: Checking Messages Before Encryption

  A scanner on every device is a capability that can be widened, fooled and misused, which is why it breaks end-to-end encryption.

  Opinion · 9 min

• Encryption Backdoors Are a Distraction: Metadata Is the Target

  Governments and surveillance actors increasingly exploit the data around your encrypted messages, not their content.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Licence Plate Readers: What They Record and Who Can Look

  The camera is sold as a way to find one car. It works by remembering every car, and the memory is where the harm lives.

  Opinion · 6 min

• Privacy in Public When Every Street Has a Camera

  You cannot avoid being seen, but you can limit how easily scattered recordings are joined into a permanent record of you.

  Opinion · 9 min

• The Push to Regulate Emotional Recognition AI

  New laws are challenging the flawed science and dangerous applications of technologies that claim to read your feelings.

  Opinion · 7 min

• The Surveillance Capitalism of AI Companions

  How emotional intimacy is harvested, packaged and sold as a service.

  Opinion · 8 min

• What Makes a Messaging App Actually Private

  "Encrypted" on the homepage answers the least important question. Defaults, metadata, backups and the two phones decide the rest.

  Opinion · 6 min

• AI in Hiring: Your Rights When an Algorithm Screens You

  Candidates have more room to ask questions than they think, and less than they deserve.

  Opinion · 8 min

• AI Meeting Note-Takers: Who Consented to the Recording?

  A bot invited by one participant records everyone, and the transcript lives on after the call.

  Opinion · 7 min

• AI Toys and Smart Speakers in a Child's Room: What They Record

  A talking toy is a microphone that a child confides in; set it up as if every conversation will be kept.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Can Your Employer See Your Screen? Workplace Monitoring Explained

  What monitoring software can capture, what it usually does, and where personal devices stand.

  Opinion · 9 min

• Crossing a Border With Your Phone: How to Prepare Your Devices

  At a border the threat is compelled access, which calls for carrying less rather than encrypting more.

  Opinion · 7 min

• GPS Spoofing Explained: When Location Data Lies

  Jamming announces itself; spoofing keeps the map calm and confident while it moves you somewhere else.

  Opinion · 7 min

• How to Remove Your Personal Information From Data Brokers

  Removal is a recurring process, and the only regimes that work are the ones that repeat.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Insider Threat in Remote Teams: Signals Without Surveillance

  Watching access and data movement works better than watching employees.

  Opinion · 9 min

• School Apps and Student Data: Questions Parents Can Ask

  Schools adopt dozens of platforms a year; parents can ask five questions that reveal the risk.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Smart Glasses and Facial Recognition: Privacy for the People in View

  Consent designs built around the wearer ignore everyone the camera looks at.

  Opinion · 10 min

• Why Cybercrime Markets Moved From the Dark Web to Chat Apps

  Convenience, reach and disposable channels beat hidden services for most criminal commerce.

  Opinion · 8 min

• Your AI Chat History Is a Record: Courts, Breaches and Reviewers

  The bigger privacy risk is not training; it is logs that can be produced, reviewed or leaked.

  Opinion · 8 min