On privacy, security, and how to use technology without surrendering it to the companies that built it.
Canada's Lawful Access Act hands the Minister of Public Safety the power to issue secret orders forcing companies to undermine their own encryption — with no judicial warrant, no transparency, and a built-in legal contradiction that nobody has bothered to fix.
More than your email, more than your search history, your calendar is a timestamped record of your life. Here is what to do about it.
For the non-technical reader. Plain language, exact steps, no shame for the version of you that signed up in 2009.
Meta makes about $57 a year per user globally, $227 in the US and Canada. You are not the customer. You are not even the product. You are the labor, and the corpus, and the training data for the model coming for your job.
Ownership is not a feeling. It's a property of the system: the source, the keys, the data, the right to walk away.