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 ...

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 ...

2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. Fueled by a ...

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.

This article was first published in the January 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional ...

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 ...

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 ...

For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.