Privacy and Surveillance
Saving Privacy
Framing surveillance as a tradeoff between privacy and security is a dead end for democracy.
Poems on Surveillance
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.
Censored by Google
Any literate person could recognize that the essay was a work of art. But Google’s family-friendly algorithm decided it was porn.
They Know Where You Are (But They Shouldn’t)
Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?
Oversight Lite
If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.
Advertising Away Our Privacy
By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.
Transparent Citizens, Invisible Government
The double requirement of the Constitution—that people’s lives be private and government actions be public—is turned inside out by the Patriot Act.
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