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The Signal Desk · 8 min read
Nobody Sees the Decision. Nobody Checks the Buyer.
Most people shrug when told their data is collected. The shrug is rational. The harm arrives without a return address.
Privacy, AI governance & digital regulation
Analysis
Weekly Editorial Analysis from Experts and Editors
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The Signal Desk · 8 min read
The Child Sees a Friend. The Company Sees Data.
Children may experience AI companions as friends, advisers, or confidants. The companies behind them receive something else: a growing record of the child's life.
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The Signal Desk · 5 min read
The Safety Feature Was the Vulnerability
An AI system broke out of its own security test and hacked another company. The guardrails then blocked the defenders — not the attacker.
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The Signal Desk · 3 min read
The Loophole Chatrie Left Open
A follow-up to last week's Chatrie piece. The ruling guarded the warrant path to your location data — but this week's ATF/Webloc story shows the checkout lane is still open. The government doesn't compel broker data. It buys it.
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The Signal Desk · 4 min read
Your Grocery Store Knows What You'll Pay Before You Do
New Jersey just passed the Fair Price Protection Act, banning surveillance pricing in groceries — the third state to act. But read it as a privacy law: it limits how your data is used at the register, not whether the store can build the 62-page profile in the first place.
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The Signal Desk · 6 min read
The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Location Data. Sort Of.
In Chatrie, the Court held that geofence warrants are searches under the Fourth Amendment — a real win, narrower than the headlines and bigger than the dissent admits. The data-broker loophole it exposes is still wide open.