Tech companies are getting rich by tracking Americans’ movements and then selling the data to various arms of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

The idea that social media platforms need to be made civilly or even criminally liable for harmful content appears to be gaining ground in Congress.

The real enemy of privacy isn’t China. It’s Big Tech.

The app’s acquisition might be good for Microsoft. But what about the rest of us?

In the absence of a coherent government response to the pandemic, the private sector has stepped into the void with new disinfecting tools, surveillance apps, and cardboard.

Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.

For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera.

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.

In the drive to “reopen” the economy, the means to radically expand tech-based surveillance and criminalize our everyday lives are there for the taking.

The role of the office may be changing forever, but don’t think your snooping employer isn't changing along with it.

Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.

Those of us affected by the AIDS epidemic know the importance—and dangers—of antibody testing.

We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.

A Bloomberg presidency would be a return to normalcy for America—a daunting prospect for everyone who isn’t white and wealthy.

Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

As a researcher in Ceausescu’s Romania, Katherine Verdery did not suspect how profoundly the secret police would interfere in her life.

In attempting to both appease the intelligence community and ostensibly roll back its powers, lawmakers are making a mockery of the reform effort.

Joshua Reeves’s “Citizen Spies” looks at citizens, surveillance, and how the police state conscripts us all.

Drone technology has birthed a new way of seeing ourselves and the world—and enabled us to surveil anyone or anything, without any legal process.