https://deceit.blog/tag/surveillance Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "surveillance". en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:49 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/encrypted-ai-the-tool-that-does-not-keep-you https://deceit.blog/essay/encrypted-ai-the-tool-that-does-not-keep-you Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The suspicion of AI is correct. The companies building the most powerful systems are not neutral actors. They have shareholders, lobbying budgets, and a structural interest in framing their product as inevitable. The FTC had to launch Operation AI Comply because companies were lying about what their… https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy https://deceit.blog/essay/privacy-law-in-ai-is-infrastructure-policy Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The question is not whether AI companies collect your data. They do. The question is why the dominant framework for stopping them treats collection as a disclosure problem rather than a prohibition problem. The California Consumer Privacy Act lets you request deletion of your data. The EU's General… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-archive-is-already-built https://deceit.blog/essay/the-archive-is-already-built Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The dossiers exist. The names are in the database. The movement records are in the cloud. The intercepted communications are on a server in a building someone owns. The archive is already built. The question is not whether it was collected. The question is whether it remains cheap to read. What dele… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-machine-that-eats-its-own https://deceit.blog/essay/the-machine-that-eats-its-own Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. In March 2017, a musician named Phil Parhamovich was pulled over on Interstate 80 near Cheyenne, Wyoming, for not wearing a seatbelt. The trooper questioned him about his trip. Officers searched his minivan. They found no drugs, no contraband. They found $91,800 in a speaker cabinet, his life saving… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-epstein-class-is-watching https://deceit.blog/essay/the-epstein-class-is-watching Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:48:18 GMT Explain. In June 2026, Joel Feder backed a borrowed Range Rover out of a parking space outside a Kohl's in Plymouth, Minnesota. Four police cars closed around him, lights and sirens going. Officers ordered Feder and his wife out, hands on their holsters but weapons never drawn, and held them for about an hou…