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I explore what happens when big tech companies, billionaires, and the systems they create become too entangled to regulate or unwind. This is a blog about tech extensity, surveillance, power, and policy. Click to read Privacat Insights, by Carey Lening, a Substack publication.
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Score one for the GDPR
So, it took a minute, but a little over a week after I posted my 'One Weird Trick' post on how to object to Substack's 'Scan For AI' feature, under the GDPR's Right to Object, I'm happy to report that it worked!If you missed it… NGL, I had middling hopes
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Stop Normalizing Meta's Pervert Glasses
Guess what, gang! I've got another Privacy Disaster. This is a little different than previous iterations because the technology I'm grumpy about today isn't exactly new. It's been kicking around since at least 2021, but only seems to have picked up intere
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One Weird Trick for Opting Out of Pangram on Substack
UPDATE (2026-08-05): Big news, everybody! Substack has begun enforcing opt-out/objection rights! If you submit a request, you can now get Pangram scanning disabled at the account-level, instead of on a per-post basis. I wrote about my success here: The te
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How Brussels can avoid becoming a digital vassal to US Big Tech
//Image: Gefühl der Abhängigkeit, by Sascha Schneider, 1894The most important AI-governance development of 2026 so far wasn't a model release. It was an export-control order. On June 12, the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security directe
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Why 'Provable Data Erasure' Is Really Hard
A few days ago, a very nice, earnest developer sent me a message. He was building a tool designed to ensure 'provable data erasure', but had the good (or perhaps, bad) enough sense to ask me for a sanity-check first. It was an interesting problem, and he
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