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THE WRONG FIX
Surveillance creep is especially disconcerting because technological advancements that automate monitoring and analysis are poised to radically enhance surveillance capabilities.
Albert Fox Cahn (@FoxCahn) is the founder and executive director of The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) at the Urban Justice Center, a New York-based civil rights and privacy group and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law & Policy at N.Y.U. School of Law.
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‘YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG’
Not all of the crimes committed today can be pinned on the president. But the trespassing itself, breaking into the Capitol, is exactly what he called for.
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‘F*CK THE ALGORITHM’
Surveillance vendors are quick to insist on expensive, high-tech “solutions” that aren’t always compatible with privacy or freedom—and often don’t solve the problems we’re facing.
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SANCTIONS
We’ve all been inundated with noxious disinformation, and it’s easy to get desensitized to lies about our election. But it’s different when those lies are delivered in court.
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REALLY DEEP STATE
By definition, contact tracers have to ask people sometimes intimate and difficult questions. What if that information can somehow be used against them?
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Destination Dystopia
A traveler surveillance system in Hawaii is bringing the potential civil-liberties pitfalls of disease detective work into clearer—and more disturbing—focus.
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HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
We all face the risk that surveillance will turn state borders into 21st-century Iron Curtains, raising constitutional conundrums that would have been unthinkable just days ago.
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HOLD, PLEASE
Safety shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy.
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‘TREMENDOUS SURVEILLANCE’
As mayor of New York, Bloomberg oversaw one of the most chilling campaigns against religious liberty in modern American history—one that Trump has praised.
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ALWAYS ON
The promise of police accountability technology took a disturbing turn—but it’s not too late to reverse course.
