Surveillance and Privacy Articles
The Myth of Targeted Enforcement
How "criminal priority" became "everyone": the evolution of immigration surveillance from targeted to total.
Read InvestigationICE's $205 Million Shopping Spree
Following the money trail of mass deportation: who profits from human misery and taxpayer dollars.
Read AnalysisData Brokers: Your Life for Sale
How LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, and others sell your personal information to ICE for enforcement operations.
Read ExposéGovernment Data Purchases
How the US government bypasses warrant requirements by purchasing personal data from private companies.
Read ArticlePegasus: State Surveillance
How NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was used to target journalists, activists, and political dissidents worldwide.
Read ArticleBackdoors & Zero-Days
The hidden markets for software vulnerabilities and government-mandated backdoors in encryption.
Read ArticleCrypto: Promise vs Reality
The gap between cryptocurrency's privacy promises and the dystopian surveillance reality.
Read ArticleMetaMask: Wallet Surveillance
How the world's most popular crypto wallet became a comprehensive surveillance tool tracking every transaction.
Read ArticleDeFi Privacy Illusion
How decentralized finance protocols collect more data than traditional banks while promising decentralization.
Read InvestigationBlockchain Analysis Surveillance
The new financial surveillance infrastructure: how companies like Chainalysis track every crypto transaction.
Read ExposéCBDC: Programmable Money Control
Central Bank Digital Currencies promise convenience but deliver unprecedented financial surveillance and control.
Read AnalysisLightning Network Privacy
Bitcoin's Layer 2 improves privacy but creates new surveillance vectors through routing and channel analysis.
Read Technical AnalysisDEX Privacy Illusion
Decentralized exchanges enable extensive surveillance despite promises of censorship resistance and decentralization.
Read InvestigationCrypto Tax Surveillance
How the IRS weaponized cryptocurrency tax compliance into the most invasive financial surveillance operation in history.
Read ExposéNFT Privacy Nightmare
How NFT purchases reveal identity, wealth, and social connections through blockchain analysis and marketplace tracking.
Read InvestigationExporting Surveillance Dystopia
How US surveillance technology spreads globally through corporate contracts and government cooperation programs.
Read AnalysisStablecoin Surveillance Control
USDC and USDT enable real-time government surveillance and censorship of digital transactions.
Read ExposéAI-Powered Surveillance
How artificial intelligence transforms surveillance into an automated totalitarian system that monitors everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Read ExposéIoT Device Surveillance
Your smart home is watching you: how Amazon Echo, Google Home, and connected devices create comprehensive surveillance centers.
Read InvestigationSatellite Internet Surveillance
How Starlink and other satellite internet constellations create new surveillance opportunities from space.
Read InvestigationCar Surveillance & Tracking
Your car is watching you: how modern vehicles became comprehensive surveillance platforms for government and corporate tracking.
Read InvestigationFacial Recognition Biometric Prison
How facial recognition technology transforms public spaces into digital panopticons with automated tracking and identification.
Read InvestigationCloud Surveillance Empire
How Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others use cloud services to maintain constant surveillance of your devices.
Read ArticleBuilding Privacy for All
How to contribute to a more private internet: running Tor relays, creating noise, and supporting privacy infrastructure.
Read ArticleTor Bridges & Censorship Resistance
When basic Tor isn't enough: using bridges and pluggable transports to bypass advanced censorship systems.
Read Advanced GuideMesh Networks & Disaster Communications
Building surveillance-resistant infrastructure using LoRa, amateur radio, and mesh networking for community resilience.
Read Technical GuideThe Surveillance-Industrial Complex
From War on Terror to War on Everyone: how surveillance became a $52 billion industry.
Read AnalysisYour Phone Is a Government Snitch
How mobile surveillance enables mass deportation through StingRay devices and location data purchases.
Read InvestigationPalantir's ImmigrationOS
When dystopian fiction becomes government contract: Palantir's $30M surveillance platform for ICE.
Read ExposéDigital Deportation Technology
How technology enables modern mass removal operations through AI targeting and surveillance systems.
Read InvestigationGlobal Surveillance Case Studies
The 1798 Alien Enemies Act
How a 227-year-old law became Trump's weapon for bypassing due process in mass deportations.
Read InvestigationChina's Social Credit System
How mass surveillance creates a system of social control through digital monitoring and algorithmic punishment.
Read Case StudyIsrael's Surveillance Technology Complex
From Unit 8200 to NSO Group: How Israeli military intelligence created the world's leading surveillance export industry.
Read InvestigationUnit 8200 & Cyber Warfare
Israel's elite intelligence unit and its role in developing global surveillance technologies.
Read Case StudyRussia's SORM System
How Russia built a comprehensive internet surveillance system for monitoring and controlling digital communications.
Read Case StudyCitizens in Deportation Database
When surveillance goes wrong: thousands of U.S. citizens wrongly detained due to database errors and algorithmic bias.
Read InvestigationBiometric ID Systems
Your body as your prison: how national digital ID systems and biometric surveillance turn unique biological features into tools of state control.
Read InvestigationChina's Surveillance Export
How China exports digital authoritarianism through surveillance technology, smart city systems, and Belt and Road infrastructure projects.
Read InvestigationDigital Identity & Social Control
How digital ID systems and social credit scoring create comprehensive population control through technological surveillance infrastructure.
Read InvestigationPrivacy Coins Under Attack
The global war on financial privacy: how governments worldwide are systematically banning Monero, Zcash, and other privacy coins.
Read AnalysisPRISM & Mass Collection
The NSA's PRISM program and how it transformed internet companies into surveillance partners.
Read Case StudyAmerican Surveillance State History
The evolution of surveillance in America from COINTELPRO to the modern surveillance state.
Read HistoryMass Surveillance vs Democracy
How pervasive surveillance undermines democratic institutions and civil liberties.
Read AnalysisRecognizing Authoritarian Overreach
Warning signs of fascist governance and how surveillance enables authoritarian control.
Read WarningAdvanced Privacy Guides
Digital Personas & Compartmentalization
Master advanced privacy by creating and managing multiple digital identities for maximum surveillance resistance.
Read Advanced GuideSelf-Hosted Privacy Infrastructure
Achieve complete digital independence with Nextcloud, Matrix homeserver, email servers, VPN, and Tor bridges.
Read Advanced GuideMobile Security Hardening
Comprehensive comparison of GrapheneOS vs CalyxOS vs LineageOS for maximum mobile privacy and security.
Read Advanced GuideAnonymous Internet Access
Master layered privacy protection with VPN-over-Tor, proxy chains, and alternative anonymity networks.
Read Advanced Guide⚠️ Educational Purpose
These articles are for educational and awareness purposes. Understanding surveillance methods is essential for protecting yourself and others. Knowledge is the first step toward digital freedom.