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The End of Privacy

This article begins a larger NOMOTO MEDIA investigation into artificial intelligence, state surveillance, commercial data collection, predictive profiling, Palantir and related intelligence infrastructure, the legacy of Edward Snowden’s disclosures, and the declining ability of courts and democratic institutions to protect private life.

Paper archives and a smartphone beneath a street surveillance camera.
Part II

Privacy Was Never Free

Human civilization has always kept records. Long before computers, databases, intelligence agencies or artificial intelligence, societies learned that memory could be removed from the mind and placed somewhere more durable. Clay tablets recorded grain,…

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