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Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

Inside COVID-19’s Ground Zero: How China Transformed Into an Open-Air Prison

Murong Xuecun on the Dangerous Intersection of Deceit, Technology, and Totalitarianism

By Murong Xuecun | March 17, 2023

The FBI is spying on a Chicago bookstore because it’s hosting “extremists.”

The FBI is spying on a Chicago bookstore because it’s hosting “extremists.”

By Jonny Diamond | March 15, 2023

Rachel Maddow on How Cell Phone Spyware Threatens Privacy and Democracy

Rachel Maddow on How Cell Phone Spyware Threatens Privacy and Democracy

Why We Need to Expose the Pegasus Project

By Rachel Maddow | January 19, 2023

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”

By John Lorinc | August 24, 2022

The Rise of China’s State Surveillance Machinery

The Rise of China’s State Surveillance Machinery

Geoffrey Cain on Big Data, AI, and the Specter of “Security”

By Geoffrey Cain | June 29, 2021

Barton Gellman on How Edward Snowden Strengthened American Democracy

Barton Gellman on How Edward Snowden Strengthened American Democracy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | May 24, 2021

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What Does Privacy Really Mean Under Surveillance Capitalism?

By Carissa Véliz | September 24, 2020

The Utopian Dream and Surveillance Nightmare of Electronic Money

By Finn Brunton | August 1, 2019

Cover Reveal: Pola Oloixarac’s Forthcoming Novel is Watching You

By Literary Hub | November 20, 2018

The Silicon Spies: Public Money and Private Surveillance

The Silicon Spies: Public Money and Private Surveillance

How the American Government Invests in Data-Gathering Start-Ups

By Yasha Levine | February 27, 2018

How Technology Makes Us Less Free

How Technology Makes Us Less Free

Franklin Foer: "We’re Drifting Toward Monopoly, Conformism, and Machines"

By Franklin Foer | September 13, 2017

Glasnost (Or 'Search Terms That Will Get You on a Watchlist')

Glasnost (Or 'Search Terms That Will Get You on a Watchlist')

A Poem by Danniel Schoonebeek

By Literary Hub | January 20, 2017

The Toxic Smog of the Information Age

The Toxic Smog of the Information Age

"Scroogled," a short story by Cory Doctorow

By Cory Doctorow | March 3, 2016

We Are Being Watched

We Are Being Watched

Bryan Hurt on privacy, surveillance, and the watchful eye of fiction

By Bryan Hurt | March 2, 2016