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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?
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.
opinion
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.
opinion
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.
opinion
HOLD, PLEASE
Safety shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy.
opinion
‘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.
opinion
ALWAYS ON
The promise of police accountability technology took a disturbing turn—but it’s not too late to reverse course.
opinion
TRACK RECORD
With a chip that can track your every move, New York’s city-issued ID cards are about to take a seriously dystopian turn.
opinion
COLLECT CALL
A crisis hitting the Danish criminal justice system could easily happen here.
DRAGNET
…and investigators ended up targeting the wrong people, at least in part from that information.
