Privacy and technological control
Privacy, control and technological power
Digital privacy isn’t a settings toggle or a marketing promise. It’s a direct consequence of how infrastructure, technical systems and control mechanisms are designed.
This section of TechLab groups together the articles that analyse privacy, surveillance and control from a technical perspective. It isn’t a chronological list — it’s a thematic entry point for understanding how power takes shape in digital systems.
Privacy as infrastructure
Privacy depends on networks, protocols, devices and technical architectures. When these fail, or are designed to control, privacy disappears.
Surveillance and automation
Sensors, devices and automated systems make it possible to monitor, classify and shape behaviour at scale.
Technical power and dependency
Control isn’t always legal or explicit: it emerges from technical dependencies, centralisation and asymmetries of access.
Articles, research and opinion on Privacy
Smart Bins: A Solution to Recycling, or a Covert Social-Control Strategy?
Your Business in Someone Else’s Hands: The Risks of Depending on Platforms Like YouTube, Twitch and Instagram
How AdSense Can Hurt Your Revenue Without Warning (and Without Letting You Defend Yourself)
How Internet Gurus Sell You a Course Promising to Master AI… with Pure Hot Air
The Connected V16 Beacon in 2026: The Umpteenth Legal Scam on Spanish Drivers
Social Media With No Owner? The Fediverse Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore
Digital Privacy Under Threat: How Cookies Enable Mass Surveillance
Exporting Surveillance Technology: China’s Expanding Model
Who’s Selling You Online: The Lords of Data Trafficking
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Alphanet – The Surveillance Network Spreading Across Catalonia
Speed Cameras in Spain – From Road Safety to Revenue and Mass Surveillance
Digital armor with blockchain: protect your work with a timestamp
Top 10 Devices for Security and Pentesting
Scams on Amazon and AliExpress: how fraudulent sellers push misleading products
From Sci-Hub to Sci-Net: The New Fight to Free KnowledgePrivacy Tools and Projects
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