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Who Should Pay for the Digital Future?The Ethics of Consent, Cost, and Control

July 6, 2026July 6, 2026 Mariel Camilleriaccountability, AI, AI data centres, AI ethics, artificial intelligence, consent, corporate subsidies, data centres, digital future, digital infrastructure, electricity demand, electricity grid, energy policy, future of work, human freedom, informed consent, innovation, Ontario, Ontario data centres, public infrastructure, public policy, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, taxpayer subsidies, technology and society, technology ethics

Technology should amplify human wisdom, not replace human judgement. It should serve people, not the other way around. Ontario is racing to attract AI data centres. We are told they …

Freedom in the Age of Control: How Digital Systems Quietly Redesign Our Lives

October 9, 2025 Mariel Camilleriautonomy, Bill C-63, Bill C-9, bills c-8, canada, cbdc, censorship, civic rights, data control, decentralization, democracy, digital id, fifteen minute cities, freedom, informed consent, privacy, Resilience, surveillance, technocracy

Digital ID, programmable currency, surveillance legislation, and “smart city” zoning all arrive with promises of safety and convenience. Yet together they form a lattice of control that could quietly replace …