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The Invisible Chain: How Digital Surveillance Became the New Normal

You wake up, check your smartphone, drive to work, buy coffee with a card, work on the computer, stream Netflix in the evening. A normal day? No. A day under total surveillance. Every day, over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are collected about us – and most people don’t even notice.

Palantir sells surveillance as security, but the system creates more problems than it solves. An analysis of the dangerous parallels to Minority Report and why ‘PreCrime’ is no longer a future vision.

How modern AI systems enable deeper control than authoritarian surveillance regimes ever could — reshaping thought through predictive modeling and metadata exploitation.