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EU Surveillance Tech, Flock Cameras, and the Privacy Crisis Nobody Wants to Face
You don't always see the camera watching you. Sometimes you only see its reflection. EU Surveillance Tech Is a Privacy Crisis Waiting to Happen There's a dangerous habit in tech that we need to stop pretending is harmless. A company builds a surveillance system. A government says it's for safety. The public gets told it's only about crime prevention. And before long, the cameras are everywhere, the data is being shared, and ordinary people are expected to just accept that bei

Michael Routhier
Jul 66 min read


They Called It a License Plate Reader. That Was Never Really the Point.
"You can't get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing." - Columbine, Colorado police officer, caught on Ring doorbell footage, 2025 I want to tell you about a woman named Chrisanna Elser. She's a financial advisor in Colorado. By every account, a law-abiding person. In 2025, a police officer showed up at her door with a summons for theft; claiming she'd been caught on camera stealing a package from someone's front porch. She was stunned. She hadn't d

Michael Routhier
Jul 26 min read
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