**Claudio Agosti** (@_vecna) began as a hacker in the late 1990s, passionate on low-level networking and operating systems, and therefore paranoid about surveillance. That was the driving force to shift into becoming a privacy hacktivist and, later on, solely addressing corporate surveillance, web tracking, and algorithm manipulation. His last project began in 2016, is https://facebook.tracking.exposed, and has been used in time of turmoil, or during electoral campaigns (Italy, France, and Argentina) to monitor how the algorithm influences public discourse.