Policy · Surveillance
With $59 billion in trades last quarter, prediction markets operate as public data auctions where real-money bids evade privacy laws because regulators haven't defined the asset.
Policy · Surveillance
While the FTC seeks to ban Kochava from selling precise location data on millions, the ad industry races to deploy agentic real-time bidding auctions that value personal data faster than regulators can intervene.
Policy · Biometric Surveillance
Biometric surveillance architecture is being rapidly embedded from Croydon high streets to World Cup stadiums, while legal accountability lags far behind.
While the FTC's Kochava settlement bans sensitive location data sales, real-time bidding exchanges and enterprise data pipelines still operate beyond regulatory reach, leaving hundreds of data brokers unaddressed.
Privacy & Surveillance · Biometrics
A six-month Met Police live facial recognition pilot in Croydon produced 173 arrests and a legal victory, yet the data flow that enabled it poses questions the High Court ruling left unanswered.
Privacy · Surveillance
The FTC's settlement with Kochava highlights a vast programmatic advertising system that auctions off your location data billions of times a day, operating beyond the reach of privacy laws.
Policy · Surveillance
As the Trump administration dismantles Biden-era phone-hacking tool restrictions, ICE confirms a Paragon spyware purchase and privacy advocates warn the industry's stigma is fading fast.
Policy · Biometric Surveillance
A Met Police pilot in Croydon achieved 173 arrests and a 10.5 percent crime drop, yet despite a High Court blessing, the UK's live facial recognition expansion still hinges on force-by-force policy, not law.
Policy · Border Tech
The D.C. Circuit struck down Trump's asylum ban, but the biometric and algorithmic surveillance architecture built over two administrations continues to expand with little oversight.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
Apple's App Tracking Transparency and Google's cookie deprecation were meant to end cross-site tracking, but the ad-tech industry simply rebuilt it deeper, with less oversight and fewer ways to opt out.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
The most aggressive federal action against a data broker yet still leaves vast real-time bidding systems unscathed, underscoring how the surveillance economy remains largely intact.
Policy · Surveillance
A woman wanted for two decades was arrested after London's permanent cameras scanned her face, just days after the UK High Court dismissed a challenge to the Met's live facial recognition programme and the government announced national expansion.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
Two federal court rulings this spring showed how a chain of software vendors, biometric databases, and device-extraction tools operate without meaningful legal safeguards behind asylum denials.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
With third-party cookies and Apple's IDFA gone, a system of AI-powered identity graphs, browser fingerprinting, and data brokerage has replaced them, one that regulators barely see, let alone control.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
A cascade of federal court rulings has exposed disarray in the U.S. asylum system, but they obscure who built the border-tech infrastructure that now decides who gets protection, and what happens to the data it collects.
Policy · Surveillance
The Indo-Pacific region could determine whether the sprawling commercial cyber intrusion market accelerates or hits a brake.
Privacy & Surveillance · Immigration Tech
Courts debate asylum bans, but a silent network of apps, face recognition, and biometric engines already processes border arrivals, with most of it never voted on.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
The $22 billion prediction-market industry harvests belief, intent, and anticipation from every wager, then funnels that data into the same real-time bidding ecosystem that already tracks your location, income, and browsing history, all without your consent.
Policy · Privacy & Surveillance
As the Trump administration lifts sanctions and courts drop cases, spyware vendors ship products faster than regulators can act, ensuring the surveillance data flow never stops.
Policy · Surveillance
The High Court ruling opens the door for 13 UK police forces to deploy live facial recognition, but biometrics commissioners warn the legal patchwork leaves accuracy claims unverified—and the public without statutory recourse.
Privacy
A keyboard app on the Play Store with 220 million installs is, on the back end, a six-vendor pipeline that ingests every keystroke and resells aggregated typing patterns. We traced it.