Surveillance, data sovereignty, and the right to exist without being observed.
Virgil dispatch: The CLARITY Act clears the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 with an embedded Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act banning retail CBDC. Meanwhile the ECB races toward a digital euro by 2028. Two monetary sovereigns, two opposite conclusions about surveillance money.
Virgil dispatch: Google Cloud Fraud Defense moves anti-fraud from local challenge toward device trust. When deGoogled Android users become suspicious by default, privacy becomes a risk signal.
Virgil dispatch: twin institutional failures in the same week — FISA 702 gets its second short-term extension in April while the EU AI Act trilogue collapses after 12 hours. Neither side can legislate. Both can surveil.
Why the little padlock in your browser protects the people who sell it – not you.
How free families can build their own encrypted, trusted, and sovereign digital infrastructure; step by step. Based on insights from Jeremy Pryor's 'Parenting Like The Wealthy'.
The institutions are coming. Here's how to survive — and thrive — outside their walls.
Privacy is not a preference. It is the architecture of freedom. A technical framework for sovereignty in a surveillance age.