Surveillance & Privacy

Surveillance capitalism, personal data practices, privacy-by-design failures and living in a monitored world.

The CPR Number Was Never a Secret

· 11 min read · 12 sources

Denmark calls the CPR number confidential and uses it to identify everyone. What a security professor calls the register's largest breach was caught by an invoice.

The Retention Economy: Kept at All Costs

· 18 min read · 11 sources

A recommendation feed is not trying to entertain you. It is trying to keep you watching, and it drifts towards whatever version of you is easiest to hold on to.

The Illusion of Delete

· 15 min read · 6 sources

We demand systems that never lose data, load instantly, and obey every law. Deletion fails not because companies are evil, but because we asked the impossible.

Digitalisation: Lost Privacy by Design

· 11 min read · 9 sources

Digitalisation turns public records from manual lookups into mass extraction, exposing your name, address and finances to anyone willing to query them.