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Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

Unfree Minds: How Nazi Germany Perfected the Art of Inducing Fear

Charlotte Beradt on the Effects of Totalitarian Terror on the Human Psyche

By Charlotte Beradt | May 1, 2025

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Helen Phillips Recommends Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and More

By Helen Phillips | August 7, 2024

How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

How Big Data and the Surveillance State Collude to Undermine Immigrant Rights

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on Immigration Policing in the Digital Age

By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández | February 1, 2024

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

By Aisha Abdel Gawad | January 29, 2024

Living My Life as the “Muslim Ron Swanson” in the Age of Digital Surveillance

Living My Life as the “Muslim Ron Swanson” in the Age of Digital Surveillance

Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Fear of Being Watched in a Post-9/11 World

By Aisha Abdel Gawad | June 9, 2023

Julia Angwin on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the Origins of Our Age of Advertising Driven Surveillance Capitalism

Julia Angwin on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the Origins of Our Age of Advertising Driven Surveillance Capitalism

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 20, 2023

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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

By Rachel Maddow | January 19, 2023

How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

By Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence | August 25, 2022

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

How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior

How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior

Heidi Boghosian on Self-Censorship and Expression

By Heidi Boghosian | July 15, 2021

What Could Equitable and Effective Biopolitics Look Like After the Pandemic?

What Could Equitable and Effective Biopolitics Look Like After the Pandemic?

Benjamin Bratton on the Public’s Perception of Epidemiological Technology

By Benjamin Bratton | June 30, 2021

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

On the Civil Rights Implications of “Vaccine Passports”

On the Civil Rights Implications of “Vaccine Passports”

Albert Fox Cahn in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 24, 2021

Ruha Benjamin on the Tech Workers Refusing to Create Tools of Surveillance

Ruha Benjamin on the Tech Workers Refusing to Create Tools of Surveillance

From the The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | November 10, 2020

Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

Roger McNamee on the Incompatibility of Social Media and Democracy

The Facebook Investor Turned Critic on Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference | November 5, 2020

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