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July 29, 2020
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The Politics of Everything
Monopoly Is Tyranny
Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.
May 13, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Coronavirus Is Making Us All Camgirls
For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera.
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 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Surveillance State
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.
May 7, 2020
Nick Martin
The Rise of the All-Seeing Boss
The role of the office may be changing forever, but don’t think your snooping employer isn't changing along with it.
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 24, 2020
Joseph Osmundson
My Life in Sero-Surveillance
Those of us affected by the AIDS epidemic know the importance—and dangers—of antibody testing.
April 13, 2020
Adrian Daub
The Rise of the Lurker
We don’t quite leave social networks we don’t trust. We stay for the friends who still post. We lurk.
February 26, 2020
Nick Martin
Mike Bloomberg’s Identity Politics
A Bloomberg presidency would be a return to normalcy for America—a daunting prospect for everyone who isn’t white and wealthy.
January 22, 2020
Adam Weinstein
Surveillance States Are Flexing Their Muscle
Trump's planned expansion of his travel ban is part of a broader authoritarian Big Data grab.
September 17, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero
July 17, 2018
Rachel Wetzler
The American Academic Mistaken for a Spy
As a researcher in Ceausescu’s Romania, Katherine Verdery did not suspect how profoundly the secret police would interfere in her life.
January 9, 2018
Marcy Wheeler
Congress’s Absurd Quest to Curb the Surveillance State
In attempting to both appease the intelligence community and ostensibly roll back its powers, lawmakers are making a mockery of the reform effort.
May 10, 2017
Ava Kofman
Why You Spy on Your Neighbors
Joshua Reeves’s “Citizen Spies” looks at citizens, surveillance, and how the police state conscripts us all.
April 19, 2017
Magazine
Kyle Chayka
The Troubling Contradictions of Dronestagrams
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.
April 7, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump Doesn’t Care About Your Privacy (Just His Own)
Rand Paul smells a political opportunity in the president's wiretapping conspiracy theory about Obama. The senator is being foolish and naive.
April 4, 2017
Alex Shephard
Trump’s new tack on the Russia scandal may already be backfiring.
April 4, 2017
Alex Shephard
The White House is predictably overplaying its hand on the “unmasking” story.
March 13, 2017
Eric Armstrong
Kellyanne Conway admits there’s no evidence of Obama wiretapping Trump, but doubles down anyway.
January 19, 2017
Jordan G. Teicher
White Vans & Black Suburbans
Photographer Mike Osborne watches the people who watch us.
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