You form an opinion. It feels like yours. But the article was surfaced by an algorithm. The pattern was amplified because it triggered engagement. You weren't hacked. You were nudged. At scale.

Hesitation before typing, deleted drafts, or pauses mid-thought are no longer private. They're data points. The Architecture of Total Capture introduces cognitive privacy and documents four convergent threats: pre-upload scanning, biometric sentiment tracking, analytic atrophy, and cognitive prompt injection.