Surveillance, Metadata & AI Profiling in Healthcare

Where data becomes danger.

This category breaks down how metadata, call logs, AI flagging, and internal systems were quietly used to profile, escalate, and erase patients from care.

From unauthorized surveillance to algorithmic bias, these posts expose the hidden infrastructure used to dehumanize vulnerable individuals—especially transgender and disabled patients.

Surveillance infrastructure

AI, Healthcare, and Trans Futures: Charting a Path Beyond Administrative Erasure

As machine learning and predictive algorithms become the scaffolding of modern healthcare, we can’t ignore the ways these tools inherit and amplify the biases of the world around them. In the last year we’ve watched a major insurer mine call [...] Read more

Parallel Violations, Parallel Survivors: How the Mangione and Dorn Cases Reveal a National Pattern of PHI Weaponization

Parallel Violations, Parallel Survivors: How the Mangione and Dorn Cases Reveal a National Pattern of PHI Weaponization Two very different people. Two very different legal arenas. One unmistakable pattern. In July 2025, defense attorneys for Luigi [...] Read more

Administrative Erasure: Why Every American Should Pay Attention

Abstract In an era of predictive policing, algorithmic triage, and privatized surveillance, a dangerous new frontier of civil rights abuse has emerged: administrative erasure. This exposé outlines how UnitedHealthcare weaponized metadata and [...] Read more
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