Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops ...

People want to turn the government's surveillance state back on itself - but how do they do that and keep their neighbors ...

The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it. Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences ...

Since the start of the second Trump administration, there's been open debate about whether the United States is descending into a modern high-tech surveillance state. But is there any truth to that?

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter ...

A slogan board stands in front of the US Capitol during a protest against government surveillance in Washington, D.C., on October 26, 2013. (Fang Zhe / Xinhua via Getty) By signing up, you confirm ...

Nearly all the cameras installed in Nepal are now made by Chinese companies and many come with facial recognition and AI tracking software.

Leo Selvaggio, “URME Surveillance” (2014) (all images courtesy the artist) The second, and more central to my work, is that it fails to consider the social component of surveillance, by which I mean ...

In 1911, a self-promoting private detective named William Burns made national headlines. He had broken open a major political corruption case, using a powerful new technology: an electronic bug. A ...

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There is growing public awareness about the scope of China’s surveillance and repression activities in Xinjiang, but its scale continues to defy the imagination. Yet these reports fail to convey the ...

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout, you’d better not cry, cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter ...