An ICE agent no longer needs to ask for your papers; they can simply point a smartphone at your face. Armed with artificial intelligence, the current administration has transformed mundane spaces, such as school parking lots and busy intersections, into instruments of mass surveillance. By weaponizing this technology against immigrants and U.S. citizens alike, the […]
Tag: data privacy
Data Collection in a Post-Roe World: A Need for National Security
Since the repeal of Roe v Wade in June of 2022, women seeking to maintain their bodily autonomy have had targets placed on their backs by regional and federal governments. As of September 2023, twenty-four states have banned and/or plan to ban abortion. These states have begun a witch-hunt persecution, incentivizing individuals to report women […]
Privacy, Democracy, and Rom-Coms: How AI Could Impact More Than We Imagined
You just cannot escape it. The classic romance story involving an unhappy couple, in which one or both of them discover their feelings for a third person whom they should have actually been with all along. And, if you are anything like me, you are in no rush to leave it behind. The easily-replicated plotline […]
Institutional Fragmentation and the Future of American Data Protection
All social media companies operate around the same basic principle. You are not the customer of Facebook — you are the product. When we speak about data, we are referring to bite-sized pieces of information about people. Where you live, how you vote, and what your favorite soda is are all examples of individual data […]
You Are Here: How The US Is Missing The Point In Regulating And Protecting Data Privacy
I like conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and flat-earthers. I like them not because I believe in the nonsense they spout, especially when it’s particularly vulgar rhetoric like claiming the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and harassing parents about it, but because their conspiracies are sometimes pretty funny, such as the idea that the world […]