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13 Feb 2023 5 minute read

On your watch

Asma Hafiz reports on the intrusive surveillance being forced on often lower caste sanitation workers in...

19 Oct 2020 4 minute read

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Safeguarding without snooping

Nick Dowson explores options for monitoring people in the interest of public health while respecting their...

Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.

16 Jun 2020 5 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Out of sight, out of mind

This Covid-19 crisis is not the ultimate leveller. Just like the financial crash of 2008, it is producing winners and losers...

Jose Caceres, a migrant who was deported back to Honduras, holds up a picture of his sons. He was separated from his 11-year-old Brayan (right) five months ago as they tried to enter the US. Brayan is now living in a shelter in Maryland. Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/PA Images

2 Mar 2020 6 minute read

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Deported by Silicon Valley

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports...

Police officers detain an activist as they block the road during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration at Bank, in the City of London, Britain October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

15 Jan 2020 4 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

How counter-terror police quash dissent

Kevin Blowe on how allegations of extremism are used to discredit social movements in the United Kingdom....

14 Jan 2019 1 minute read

This article is more than four years old.

Looking through Five Eyes

Britain’s spies and special forces are some of the most secretive in the Western world. Phil Miller reports...

'NEW FRIGIDAIRE MASTER for families that want maximum storage space...’.From the Ladies’ Home Journal. 1948. Pic: Wyeth, N.C.

8 Feb 2018 29 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

The convenience of smart fridges? Think again

A dystopian short story by Pat Cadigan on the future internet of things.

1 Jul 2016 5 minute read

This article is almost seven years old.

I spy with my little algorithm

Everybody wants your private data. Bruce Schneier on how surveillance has become the business model of the...

16 Dec 2015 5 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

For their eyes only

Michaela Whitton considers unlawful surveillance and the crushing of dissent.

23 Jul 2015 3 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

What the hack?

The recent Hacking Team leak illustrates the hypocrisy at the heart of the arms trade, writes Andrew Smith....

13 Mar 2015 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Explosive new book Blacklisted launches at Houses of Parliament

New book blows the scandal of Blacklisting wide open

1 Nov 2014 8 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Spied on by BP

Why did an oil company go to such lengths to monitor Jess Worth’s activism? Perhaps we are more powerful than...

15 Sep 2014 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

From prying plumbers to snooping social workers

The Prevent anti-terrorism programme is alienating the Muslim community, writes Ylenia Gostoli.

11 Jul 2014 3 minute read

This article is almost nine years old.

The British government is terrorizing the public into accepting its snooping law

Do not be fooled, this has nothing to do with jihadis or paedophiles, says Robin Tudge.

21 Jun 2013 3 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

How to fight PRISM

Cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi argues that the solutions to mass surveillance are social and political, not...

Surveillance: another battle is won – but the war goes on

2 May 2013 4 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

Surveillance: another battle is won – but the war goes on

Robin Tudge on why we must never let down our guard.

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