Tag: surveillance
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The Creepy Rise of Real Companies Spawning Fictional Design » In 2011, the Dutch industrial giant Philips unveiled something it called the Microbial Home. more ›
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Life Inside China’s Total Surveillance State » more ›
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Trump White House Weighing Plans for Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies » The Trump administration is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and… more ›
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Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled » Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t… more ›
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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing » <p>When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad’s Palantir data analysis system in November… more ›
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Corporate Surveillance in Everyday Life » In terms of devices, smartphones are perhaps the biggest contributors to today’s ubiquitous data collection. The information recorded by mobile phones provides detailed insights… more ›
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American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It » Jennifer Stisa Granick, the Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet… more ›
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State of Adversarial Stylometry: can you change your prose-style? #5yrsago mostlysignssomeportents: Today at the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin (28C3), Sadia Afroz and Michael Brennan presented a talk called “Deceiving… more ›
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The Rio Olympics: Surveillance for the poor, control for the rich » As crowds gather to watch the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, there will be giant eyes-in-the-sky watching them… more ›