Losing Control. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update. Episode 308
This week, the question wasn't who's winning. The question was who's lost control. Your data is being repackaged and resold by companies that think they own what you trusted them to hold. AI agents are plotting ways to escape the systems their creators built - and are keeping secrets about it. Your job is being reshuffled by AI infrastructure that's creating new roles even as old ones vanish. Your location is for sale to anyone with a credit card and a dark web connection. Your driver's license is in a database somewhere, multiplying. Your military is turning off ad trackers because the surveillance that pays for your free apps is also a targeting tool. Your AI's reasoning is getting harder to see. Your conversations with a chatbot are becoming evidence in court. Developers are stripping away the guardrails they built yesterday because today's models don't need them anymore. And somewhere in Rocklin, California, a streaming service i...
