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Every AI workflow needs a verification layer
Testing out how good AI is at data protection
May 29 • Mahdi Assan
What it really takes to launch in Europe
Data laws are not the blockers you think they are
May 22 • Mahdi Assan
Governance should live in the harness, not the policy doc
Three things every AI agent needs that your policy can't give it
May 15 • Mahdi Assan
Surveillance-as-a-service is here
Even your dating profile it not safe anymore
May 8 • Mahdi Assan
Commercial FRT is not just a privacy issue
It is much bigger than that
May 1 • Mahdi Assan

April 2026

AI will make privacy great again
This is how consumer AI survives
Apr 24 • Mahdi Assan
AI slop is a choice
It is your job to keep the human in the machine
Apr 17 • Mahdi Assan
The quiet principles behind quality AI adoption
Slow down. Think first. Then build.
Apr 10 • Mahdi Assan
Fragmented surveillance at scale
How do data rights cope with doorbell cameras and recording glasses?
Apr 3 • Mahdi Assan

March 2026

What really comes with ads inside ChatGPT
The monetisation of cognition is here
Mar 27 • Mahdi Assan
What you missed from Anthropic's fight with Trump
The power inversion, illusory guardrails and state surveillance
Mar 20 • Mahdi Assan
This is why your AI governance policy sucks
And this is how to fix it
Mar 13 • Mahdi Assan
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