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

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?

In the race among U.S. law enforcement agencies to be the snoopiest, most intrusive, and greatest threat to privacy, it's really hard to score the players. To a great extent, that's because the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it. Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences of landing on the government’s “naughty list” are far more severe than a ...