Tag: Privacy and Surveillance

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books.

As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

We need a model of ownership that recognizes our collective interests.