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EP 264.5 deep dive Maps, Taps, and facial slaps. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for October 28th 2025
Technology, once a neutral servant, now increasingly operates according to hidden incentives-shaped by corporate interests, data extraction, and algorithmic autonomy-often against the user’s best interests. Across several examples, systems built for convenience expose deeper trends of control, deception, and surveillance that challenge the meaning of ownership and privacy.
A vivid instance comes from an iLife A11 smart vacuum whose owner blocked its telemetry data from being sent to foreign servers. In response, the manufacturer issued a remote “kill command,” disabling the device entirely…
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