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Sophia Goodfriend is a PhD student in cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her doctoral research, supported by the National Science Foundation, sits at the intersection of science and technology studies, surveillance studies, and digital rights. Her writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy, Jewish Currents, The Baffler, and Visual Anthropology Review. She tweets @sopgood.
Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.
In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.
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