Research Reports 🔬

Reddit’s Fingerprinting Technology: This report explains how Reddit can combine device data, network signals, and behavioural patterns to identify users and detect ban evasion. It warns that such systems can cause false bans, account linkage, privacy harms, and misattribution, especially as AI and spoofing tools improve, and it calls for stronger safeguards, transparency, and user redress.

Profit vs Progress: This report argues that technology is often held back less by technical limits and more by corporate incentives, legal systems, vendor lock-in, and human resistance to change. It contrasts proprietary control with open-source flexibility and concludes that open standards, procurement reform, and cultural change are needed to reduce institutional barriers to innovation.