Privacy and Surveillance

Hoverboarding While Black

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

  • Clarence Harlan Orsi

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

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

  • Francey Russell

The Border Is Not a Wall

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

  • Matthew Longo

How to Spy on a President

On the legal and ethical scope of surveillance.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth

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

  • Kelly Lytle Hernández

That Lonesome Whistle

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

  • Candice Delmas

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Writing Under Surveillance

On the subversive fiction of East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig.

  • Tyler Curtis

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

  • Neil M. Richards

In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

  • Joseph Margulies

Obama’s NSA Reforms, One Year Later

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.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Rethinking Privacy

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

  • William H. Simon

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

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

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

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

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Snowden and the Ethics of Whistleblowing

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

  • William E. Scheuerman

Privacy is Not Dead—It’s Inevitable

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

  • Neil M. Richards

Response to Saving Privacy

If users have incentive to sell their data, encryption won’t help.

  • Evgeny Morozov

Response to Saving Privacy

The NSA has weakened the products we all use to protect ourselves.

  • Bruce Schneier

Response to Saving Privacy

Delegating transparency to secret-keepers is self-defeating.

  • Jeremy K. Kessler

Response to Saving Privacy

The real problem is the blurring of military and police power.

  • Frank Pasquale

Response to Saving Privacy

We cannot trust the government with our data.

  • Jennifer Granick

Response to Saving Privacy

Companies need to align themselves with individuals.

  • Rebecca MacKinnon

Response to Saving Privacy

Corporate data collection is more harmful than government misuse.

  • Archon Fung

Response to Saving Privacy

We must talk about trading privacy for lives.

  • Marvin Ammori
  • Adam Kern

Response to Saving Privacy

We need collective action, not individual self-protection.

  • Richard M. Stallman
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