Author name: VeraUno

Privacy is a fundamental human right and is enshrined in international human rights treaties.

In 1988, Congress passed a law to stop video stores from revealing what people rented on VHS. Today, data brokers openly sell lists of people with dementia, gambling problems, and military service records — while AI systems turn everyday communications into training data. Cory Doctorow calls the result the “reverse centaur”: when humans stop using the machine and start serving it. Privacy is no longer just personal. It is about who controls the knowledge that makes organisations and individuals distinct.

AI labs are buying physical books by the millions, scanning them for training data, and discarding what remains. This is not digitization — it is extraction. Once the pages are gone and the knowledge exists only inside a proprietary model, the original is no longer independently accessible. The same logic already applies to your emails, your data, and your private communications.

In a standout keynote at Oracle AI World 2025, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison delivered a clear message that stood out from the usual AI hype. He argued that the next major leap in artificial intelligence will not come primarily from building larger models or adding more computing power. Instead, the real breakthrough will come from securely connecting AI systems to private, high-value data.

Most email is encrypted in transit — but the provider still holds the keys. Here is exactly what Client-Side Encryption changes, and why it is the only approach that offers a mathematical privacy guarantee.

AI systems are reading business communications at scale. Here is what actually protects you.

Gmail marks its 21st birthday with a landmark security upgrade: simple, accessible end-to-end encryption which prevents even Google from reading your emails. Here’s what’s changing and what it means for your privacy.

Apple Privacy Statement states: Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s also one of our core values.