The Privacy Singularity (Page 2)

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Good News

Everything about privacy is bad news nowadays. Every single article you see today is simply doomer-based and it gets tiring hearing about it. Unfortunately, good news doesn't get likes, so it's not brought up frequently. I'm writing this post to say there is

Cold as ICE

As of May 4th, the city of Kettering, Ohio will no longer allow use of their Flock cameras for immigration enforcement. This comes months after the council meeting to install the surveillance ALPRs saying they would not be used for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) or speeding tickets. They can&

Odys-See-Us

PewDiePie, the former king of YouTube, just released a product he calls Odysseus. Posted on GitHub completely open-sourced, it's a self-hosted AI agent that learns from you. The whole point of it is to self-host your own AI. It allows you to chat with your

Flock Surveillance

Flock Group Inc., or Flock Safety. They were founded back in 2017 (9 years ago, holy...) and employ over 1,500 people now as of 2025. The products they sell are security cameras. More specifically, they lease Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to cities around the United States. Cities agree

Markup Theaters

When was the last time you went to a movie theater? It's likely that when you last went to the theaters, it wasn't an independent cinema. Nowadays, there are only a few companies that hold nearly all of the movie theaters near you: * Cinemark Holding, Inc.

RSS Feeds

Have you wanted a way to be updated on this blog? Because I don't support a newsletter, there's only one official method of doing this: RSS. RSS files are files that you're able to download and RSS readers will automatically pull from that file

Reject Convenience

"Convenience." It's a word that has become more important than ever. No matter what you want to do, it has to be convenient. It's the reason most websites are deliberately assembled based on how their users interact with it. It's the reason

Vizio Lawsuit

This is based on a post I previously talked on I just spotted a WAN Show clip talking about a lawsuit against the TV brand, Vizio. Vizio is owned by Walmart Inc. as of December of 2024 after it's acquisition for $2.3 billion. In this short clip,

Don't Up the Ante-Virus

Antivirus programs do exactly what they say they do: they keep viruses away from your computer. Many people have them on their computer because it came with it. If you have an HP or a Dell computer, you likely still have McAfee installed. You didn't want it, but

Tele-Vision

I was recently at Walmart with a couple of good friends of mine. We tend to go over to the tech section of the store, as all of us are relatively into technology and like to see what's new. In the technology section, they have a ton of