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.
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.