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Amazon spent millions putting a lost dog in front of a hundred million people during the Super Bowl. The ad was thirty seconds long, emotionally bulletproof, and a perfectly accurate depiction of a networked AI surveillance system activating across an entire residential neighborhood. They just made sure you were crying when you saw it.Meanwhile, in Tucson, an 84-year-old woman had been missing for over a week. Her Nest doorbell footage was declared unrecoverable by local law enforcement. Then the FBI pulled images from what Google called "residual data located in backend systems," which is a…
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I'm Drey, and this is my Dossier. I'm an OSINT investigative reporter who follows digital trails, pulls buried threads, and exposes how your data became the most valuable thing the powerful can extract from you. Subscribe to my Substack for every source, receipt, and everything you need to investiga
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