#Surveillance

Run 551 people, 487 institutions and 1,247 sourced career edges through centrality and co-occurrence counts and the patterns nobody hand-picked fall out: Kissinger at the center, the White House as the real bridge desk, a five-person surveillance core, and the AI founders and AI regulators as one revolving cohort. With the findings that did not survive the count.

The cryptographer’s case against encryption backdoors in his own words: the 2007 Dual_EC_DRBG warning that Juniper later proved, why an access door for the good guys is a door for everyone, the surveillance partnership between governments and the companies that hold our data, his testimony, and the Crown Sterling episode as the record actually has it.

In 2015, the International Atomic Energy Agency hired Palantir Technologies for a fifty-million-dollar software platform called Mosaic. Mosaic was a predictive-analytics engine designed to help IAEA inspectors plan ‘unscheduled probes,’…

Interactive comparison: China vs. EU vs. India vs. US vs. UK — component by component. The infrastructure gap is closing.

The government cannot warrantlessly collect the data, so it buys the same data from private brokers instead — a purchase that launders the prohibition, sourced end to end.

AI safety teams dissolved when they conflicted with product velocity; surveillance vendors selling to authoritarian regimes; security vendors captured or owned by state actors. Routed from the security-charlatans corpus.

Identifying a face in a crowd, country by country — China’s SkyNet, the EU’s banned-with-exceptions AI Act, India’s no-framework rollout, the US Clearview-scraping model and the UK’s Met Police live deployment. The component the Convergence Index scores.

Australia’s automated debt recovery system sent 433,000 unlawful debts. Rhys Cauzzo got 12 letters and made 13 phone calls. Jenny Miller fought for 8 years. 663 people died.

The most important convergence case study. A democracy building China-scale infrastructure — and sometimes constraining it. Speed vs. direction.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised at least nine US telecom companies: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Lumen, Spectrum, Consolidated Communications, Windstream. Specifically targeted the CALEA-mandated lawful-intercept systems — the wiretapping backdoors the US government required telecoms to build.

Reference document for institutional control infrastructure research. Covers workplace algorithmic management, employee monitoring software, and the consumer IoT surveillance ecosystem.

The foundation layer. Everything in the modern AI control grid is built on top of this.

The thesis: every surveillance capability governments build eventually gets turned against them.

What they monitor: Webcam, audio, screen, keystroke patterns, eye tracking, room scans. ExamSoft collects ‘retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry.’