Tag: civil rights

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• Google’s Advertising Platform Is Blocking Articles About Racism

  August 15, 2020

  On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King’s famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” which the magazine had run in its August 1963 issue and… more ›

• Why Protest Movements Are ‘Civil’ Only in Retrospect

  June 17, 2020

  Once history has endorsed a social movement, people tend to simplify it and downplay the opposition it faced. But while movements are happening, historians say, they are always messy. The… more ›

• How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and…

  May 26, 2018

  How Hungary and Poland have silenced women and stifled human rights » In the women’s movement in Central Europe, there are few moments to celebrate. Polish women successfully preventing a… more ›

• Black Lives Matter Isn’t Just a Hashtag Anymore

  September 12, 2016

  Black Lives Matter Isn’t Just a Hashtag Anymore » The first time the White House called me, I was at a protest. It was late November 2014, a week after… more ›

• The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot…

  September 11, 2016

  The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse">Cory Doctorow: » It used to be that server logs were just boring utility files whose most dramatic moments came… more ›

• lostinurbanism: Barricades blocking civil rights…

  January 29, 2015

  lostinurbanism: Barricades blocking civil rights marchers from leaving black neighborhoods in Selma, Alabama. (1965) Photograph by Flip Schulke more ›