Smart home devices track voice, motion, and behavior to build detailed patterns of life. Learn how Alexa, Ring, and connected systems collect and use your data, and how hosting local-first models on personal devices can help you keep it private.

Series: Seeing the Social Program (4/4)
Social platforms model relationships as networks, using graph data to predict group behavior and influence information flow. Through ranking and targeting, they are able to shape environments and norms indirectly. Companion Memory keeps your social data local, prioritizing user awareness over external modeling.

Series: Seeing the Social Program (3/4)
Platforms infer emotional states using behavior signals like language, timing, and engagement. These signals power feedback loops that shape content exposure and reinforce responses. How can we escape it? Or learn from it? Companion Intelligence offers a local-first model, that collects public context to create private and user-controlled insight.