Going Dark

Posted on Sat 13 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with fisa, section 702, surveillance, privacy, nsa, national security, fourth amendment, executive order 12333, civil liberties, espionage, church committee, podcasts

Going Dark

FISA Section 702 expired at midnight on June 12. The government's surveillance programs did not. A tour through what the law actually does, what exists beneath it, and why the off switch was never part of the design.


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Your Truck Called the Cops

Posted on Tue 28 April 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with surveillance, ford, biometrics, privacy, telematics, insurance, fourth-amendment, vehicles, data-collection, patents, podcasts

Your Truck Called the Cops

Ford has filed a stack of patents—emotional state interlocks, real-time criminal database queries, lip-reading cameras, in-cab ad listening. An AI recognizes the architecture.


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