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20 May 2026
A surrealist digital art piece depicting a person connected to a massive gear-filled machine by glowing fiber-optic cables, symbolizing the loss of online data privacy in a corporate extraction economy.

The Digital Panopticon: Why Your “Privacy Settings” Are a Gimmick

Online data privacy is a lie. From Silicon Valley’s rhetorical cudgels to the ‘biomass’ of the extraction economy, Derek R. Audette deconstructs the digital panopticon. Stop clicking ‘I Accept’ and start seeing the gears of the Machine.

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