A BRUKET PROJECT · CIVIC COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE

Spegeln

The government has set the precedent for a society built on mass surveillance.

Spegeln turns the machinery of mass surveillance back on the people who build, defend, and expand it — using nothing but record that is already public. Everything uncomfortable it shows, those in power already decided you were allowed to see.

BUILT FOR

Anyone who believes the powerful should be at least as transparent as the citizens they watch.

PUBLIC RECORDREC-0438 · SOURCE-LINKED

OFFICEHOLDER

Public figure

Public officeMunicipal board · 2019–▸ källa

Registered addressPublic · folkbokföring▸ källa

Family & relationsSpouse, children · public▸ källa

Income & assetsPublic · Skatteverket▸ källa

Company & ownership3 holdings · board seats▸ källa

Every entry is drawn from records anyone may read. In Sweden — under offentlighetsprincipen and folkbokföringen — that already includes home address, family, income, and assets, queryable for any citizen from anywhere. The powerful use it freely. Spegeln points the same lens upward.

THE QUESTION

“If society accepts that ordinary people should be monitored preemptively, why should that principle not apply equally — and first — to those who hold power?”

WHAT SPEGELN IS

It reflects a principle. It does not invent the data.

Spegeln is not surveillance of you. It is not a leak platform, a hacking tool, or a weapon. It is a mirror — and the people who flinch at it are the ones who built the thing it reflects.

Everything it presents already exists in the open. Spegeln automates the collection, correlation, indexing, and presentation of publicly available information about people in positions of power.

The statement is not the data itself. It is how fast “nothing to hide” evaporates the moment the same surveillance logic is turned upward instead of downward.

THE PLATFORM

Eight instruments, one mirror.

The principle is the point — but the machine is real. A set of AI-supported workflows for scrutiny, transparency, and coordinated, lawful counter-pressure, built entirely on public record.

Transparency Index

Insynsindex

Scores public bodies on how open they actually are — a live dashboard, leaderboard, and scorecards.

Authority Scrutiny

Myndighetsgranskaren

Structured review of agencies, decisions, and the records behind them — with documented failure reports.

The Surveillance Mirror

Övervakningsspegeln

The same monitoring logic citizens face every day — aimed upward, at profiles of power.

People’s Court

Folkets domstol

Public, documented scrutiny measured against the record. Voting is a confidence and pressure signal, not a legal verdict.

Reverse Surveillance

Omvänd övervakning

For people who arrive with material, not permission. Aggregates the public traces of those who build and expand surveillance — gated by legal review.

State Weaknesses

Statens svagheter

Maps process patterns and bureaucratic weakness — where institutions are opaque, unaccountable, or fragile. Not intrusion, not sabotage.

Mass Appeals

Byråkrati-bombaren

AI-drafted, source-backed formal appeals, prepared in rate-limited batches when authorities stall or stonewall.

Tax Analysis

Skatteplanering

Turns public financial disclosures into legible structure. Lawful strategies only — no advice on illegal arrangements.

One FastAPI worker underneath — entity extraction, embeddings, anomaly detection, failure triage, press drafts, and appeal bundles. A public, key-scoped API exposes the leaderboards, dashboards, and scorecards.

Beneath it run ten live watchdog connectors — the riksdag, the government, the courts, state-owned company boards, public procurement, the police, prosecutors, agency leadership, and official business addresses — with cursors, retries, tiered scheduling, and review items.

WHAT IT REFLECTS

Public record, made legible.

Spegeln collects and contextualises information that is already publicly available about individuals in positions of power.

01Public offices

02Government positions

03Political roles

04Home address (folkbokföring)

05Family & relations

06Income & assets

07Companies & ownership

08Public procurement

09Court records

10Voting records

11Public statements

12Organisational affiliations

THE REALISATION

You may feel you are seeing something you shouldn’t.

Nothing here is secret. Nothing here is illegal. Every entry is drawn from records that anyone is entitled to read.

The discomfort does not come from the data. It comes from the direction. We have quietly agreed this kind of visibility is acceptable — as long as it points downward, at ordinary people.

Spegeln is not an argument. It is a realisation: if this principle is acceptable, this is exactly where it leads.

WHERE IT STANDS

Anti-opacity, not anti-anything-else.

Not anti-government

Anti-unchecked power

Not anti-police

Anti-opacity

Not anti-democracy

For the transparency democracy requires

THE BOUNDARY

·Only publicly available or verifiable sources, records, and documents.

·No illegal methods and no breaches — nothing that isn’t already public by law.

·Unconfirmed allegations and raw tip text are never published without verification.

·Aimed at people with power and public office — not at private citizens.

IT PRACTISES WHAT IT DEMANDS

Spegeln refuses to surveil its own users. Reporting is pseudonymous, and you can pay in cash (−50%) or crypto like Monero (−25%). It dogfoods the privacy it demands on everyone’s behalf.

If society accepts surveillance as a principle, eventually someone will build Spegeln.

That realisation is the entire project.