Simone worked in network security for six years before she realized the bigger threat wasn't coming from outside corporate firewalls. She now writes about the companies that have built entire business models on the quiet collection of personal data — who they sell it to, which regulators look the other way, and how the legal language in terms-of-service agreements is specifically designed to be unreadable. She is not particularly interested in being reassured that everything is fine.
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Big Tech & SurveillanceMeta’s AI-powered smart glasses are facing growing privacy concerns in the U.K. and U.S. as critics question camera use, data collection, and public surveillance risks.
A new report says U.S. immigration agencies awarded more than $513 million in surveillance technology contracts in 2026, including AI-powered border systems, facial recognition, drones, and data analytics, raising fresh privacy concerns.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police must meet stronger constitutional standards before using geofence warrants to obtain smartphone location data, marking a major victory for digital privacy.
The UK has introduced stricter oversight rules for major cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle as regulators address growing concerns over digital infrastructure risks and dependency on Big Tech.
