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Digital privacy
May 12, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Congress May Hand Bill Barr the Keys to Your Online Life
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.
May 4, 2020
Magazine
Rachel Riederer
How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.
April 9, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Socially Distanced Protester
The challenges of collective action under lockdown
September 17, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero
May 30, 2019
Lizzie O'Shea
Digital Privacy Is a Class Issue
As corporations mine data and monetize the web, the divide between rich and poor on the Internet grows wider.
March 23, 2018
Matt Ford
Congress may have just nixed a Supreme Court case on digital privacy.
February 28, 2018
Matt Ford
The Court and the Cloud
The Supreme Court wrestles with how to apply U.S. laws to international tech companies.
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