So, I have been a privacy advocate and activist for 20 years and have achieved a great deal in that time including massive changes to EU law (such as ePrivacy and the GDPR) which have had ripple effects globally.

AI has allowed me to take my activism to the next level. I am creating a live action show called "WSI: Web Site Investigators" in the genre of CSI/NCIS as a means to raise awareness about web site tracking and profiling.

The show is based on real forensic audits of real web sites that are named and shamed in the show. the entire show is created with local, open weights AI models on my M1 Ultra Mac Studio with 128GB unified memory.

So far I have released a single (the theme song for the show) called "Leave my Data Alone" which is available on all the major streaming platforms; and today I released the first introductory video for the cast.

This is all new to me (I have never done video production before) and I learnt how to do all of this in just a couple of hours.

All the cases (each episode is based on a new case file) are real, the evidence in each episode is real and the web site is called out in each episode directly.

For all the bad things we can say about AI - here is a positive use case - making activism more affordable.