Josh Dratel: Updates in the War on Civilian Privacy
With surveillance cameras on every corner and our smartphones tracking our every move, we've entered a new era of the war on civilian privacy.
View ArticleMegha Rajagopalan: How Many Millions of Cellphones Are Police Watching?
No one knows for sure why or how many cell phone records have been picked up, or whether it's fully legal.
View ArticleLinda Sarsour: Surveillance and the City
The director of the Arab Association of New York talks with Meaghan Winter about mosque monitoring, civil liberties, and kids asking 'why do they hate us?'
View ArticleDue Process, Imminent Threat
From electronic surveillance to drone strikes to racial disparities in the criminal justice system, the writer, lawyer, and advocate anticipates the most pressing issues of the next four years.
View ArticleTodd Miller: Living in a Constitution-Free Zone
Drones, surveillance towers, malls of the spy state, and the national security police on the northern border.
View ArticleChristie Thompson: The Best Stories on the Government’s Growing Surveillance
What we know about what the government knows.
View ArticleTom Engelhardt: The Making of a Global Security State
The five uncontrollable urges of a secrecy-surveillance world.
View ArticleTheodoric Meyer and Peter Maass: No Warrant, No Problem
How the government can get your digital data.
View ArticleTrevor Paglen: Turnkey Tyranny, Surveillance and the Terror State
We’re not moving toward a surveillance state; we live in the heart of one.
View ArticleTom Engelhardt: The Dictionary of the Global War on You (GWOY)
Vocabulary for life in the surveillance state.
View ArticleRajkamal Kahlon: A Time for Breaking Laws
An intervew with the Jameel Jaffer, the Director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, about surveillance, privacy, and the importance of "meta data."
View ArticleJustin Elliott: Does the NSA Tap That?
What we still don’t know about the agency’s internet surveillance.
View ArticleKara Brandeisky: Six Ways Congress May Reform NSA Snooping
A measure to end one NSA program was just defeated in the House by a surprisingly narrow margin. Here are other proposals on the table.
View ArticlePeter Van Buren: Welcome to Post-Constitution America
What if your country begins to change and no one notices?
View ArticleKara Brandeisky: Before Obama was President
As a senator, Obama supported strong controls on surveillance. As president, not so much..
View ArticleRaymond Bonner: How A Telecom Helped the Government Spy on Me
As early as 2004, an unnamed telecommunications company—identified in documents only as Company A—helped the FBI spy on New York Times reporters.
View ArticlePratap Chatterjee: The Data Hackers
When the FBI hires hackers and hacking tools, it’s because they don’t have any other choice.
View ArticleTom Engelhardt: The Etiquette of War and Surveillance
Colonel Manners demystifies national security etiquette for the masses.
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