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Tag: Privacy and Surveillance

Lerone A. Martin, Jeanne Theoharis

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

Emily Berman

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.

Karen Levy

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

Tadhg Larabee

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.

Toussaint Nothias

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.

Sophia Goodfriend

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

Matthew Crain

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

Rachel Rebouché

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

Kenia Hale, Payton Croskey, Nate File

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

Aziz Z. Huq

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

Sophia Goodfriend

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Madiha Tahir

Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. In reality, U.S. empire has only continued to exert influence.

Joseph Margulies

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

Annette Zimmermann

Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.

Carissa Véliz

The more someone knows about us, the more they can influence us. We can wield democratic power only if our privacy is protected.

Genevieve Fried, Meredith Whittaker, Erin McElroy

Proptech is leading to new forms of housing injustice in ways that increase the power of landlords and further disempower tenants and those seeking shelter.

Lauren Carasik

A leaked Department of Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.

Matthew Longo

We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”

Clarence Harlan Orsi

In the era of digital neighborhoods, social networks embolden a new kind of racial surveillance.

Francey Russell

‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

Matthew Longo

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Elizabeth Goitein

On the legal and ethical scope of surveillance.

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Candice Delmas

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

Tyler Curtis

East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig on the surveillance state.

Neil M. Richards

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

Joseph Margulies

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

Elizabeth Goitein

The “nothing to see here” tone of a recent intelligence report shows Obama is not concerned about our civil liberties. That is why we should be.

William H. Simon

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

Elizabeth Goitein

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

Elizabeth Goitein

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

William E. Scheuerman

Is it naïve to see whistleblowing as a form of civil disobedience?

Neil M. Richards

The internet has become an environment of total tracking and total control.

Reed Hundt

Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.

Andrew Ridker

We invited poets to contribute new works, entering into a larger dialogue on what it means to have open eyes and ears in the twenty-first century. Poems by Armantrout, Ashbery, Bernstein, Pinsky, and others.

Neil M. Richards

We are at a critical point in the history of our civil liberties.

Elizabeth Goitein

In the post-Snowden world, it is hard to imagine a more consequential fork in the road.

Ronald Deibert

Toward Distributed Security in Cyberspace

Nasser Hussain

“The drones were terrifying. The buzz of a distant propeller is a constant reminder of imminent death."

Joel Whitney

Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.

Neil M. Richards

Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?

Elizabeth Goitein

If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.

Elizabeth Goitein

On the limitations of secret judicial review.

Elizabeth Goitein

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

Pamela S. Karlan

On New Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

Evgeny Morozov

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

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