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Published in: openSecuritySurveillance: finding the culpritWe scrutinize the state for its Orwellian ambitions, but not the structures that render them feasible. Privacy...
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Published in: openSecurityBig democracy, big surveillance: India's surveillance state
In India, surveillance is on the rise by the state to tackle crime and terrorism, and private companies are eager to...
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Published in: HomeThe wild west of surveillance
Here we have an anatomy of a surveillance world that grows more, not less, powerful and full of itself with every...
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Published in: openSecuritySelling dictatorshipLiberal opinion has been outraged by the disclosures about US and UK electronic surveillance. Yet the most...
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Published in: openSecurityExtending a hand or raising a fist to the state?From mobile phones to crowdsourced election monitoring, an in-depth look at how communication technologies are...
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Published in: openSecurityLocal surveillance since 2001The almost exclusive focus on the NSA obscures the degree to which surveillance has become integrated into almost...
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Published in: openSecurityAmerica's black-ops blackoutThe Pentagon has divided the whole globe like a giant pie into six slices through U.S. Special Operations Command....
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Published in: openSecurityFrom utopia to dystopia: technology, society and what we can do about itThe superficial post-war dream that technology would solve the world’s social problems has transformed into a...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Snowden: UN takes first small step to curb global surveillanceThe debate on international electronic spying, blown open by the US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Snowden and state surveillance in SpainLike most Europeans, Spaniards were shocked by revelations of extensive US spying on European citizens. Yet, there...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new German surveillance state - Merkel, Snowden and the Euro Hawk droneIn principle, Germany is a state committed to democracy and international peace. This is why three recent political...
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Published in: openSecurityRebuilding Nahr el BaredAfter its destruction in the 2007 conflict, how did residents and architects go about rebuilding one of Lebanon's...
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Published in: openSecurityCybercriminals find wonderland in developing countries
With increased Internet access and smartphone use across Latin America, Asia and Africa, organized crime networks...
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Published in: openSecurityNew technologies cannot substitute political will
New technologies have the capacity to both emancipate and control individuals and their choices. Our pre-occupation...
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Published in: openSecurityDrones over the world
US drones are often thought of as focused entirely on action against Al-Qaeda and associates, particularly in...
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Published in: HomeTowards a twenty-first century society of control?
These highly complex systems literally disintegrate the spatial and geographical unity of political subjects, that...
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Published in: openSecurityBorder patrol international
The U.S. border is no longer static and 'homeland security' no longer stays in the homeland: it’s mobile, it’s...
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Published in: openSecurityThe promise, and problems, of mobile phones in the developing world
In the rush to spread the information revolution, digital development agendas pose an increasing threat to privacy....
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Published in: HomeNo more sourcesRevelations by Edward Snowden, National Security Agency dissident, have grave implications for the role of...
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Published in: HomeThe data hackers: mining your information for Big Brother
Raytheon's latest product is a software package eerily named "Riot" that claims to be able to predict where...
