Surveillance

• Facial Recognition — The Control-Grid Component
  June 26, 2026
  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/UK Clearview-and-Met deployment. The component the Convergence Index scores.
• The Robodebt Kill Chain: 12 Letters, 13 Phone Calls, and a Dead Man
  June 17, 2026
  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 Convergence Table: Who's Building What
  June 17, 2026
  Interactive comparison: China vs. EU vs. India vs. US/UK — component by component. The infrastructure gap is closing.
• India Stack: The Democratic Ratchet
  June 14, 2026
  The most important convergence case study. A democracy building China-scale infrastructure — and sometimes constraining it. Speed vs. direction.