Mehul Mishra·1d agoThe Postal Service Built a Surveillance Program. Then It Lost the Records.By 2018, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service was running a tracking program called the Internet Covert Operations Program, or iCOP. The…
InWhere Thought BendsbyAndrzej Wierzbicki·2d agoThe Choice Before the CameraA manual passport check is a meaningful option only if passengers can ask for it before the camera takes their picture.
Subha javeed·2d agoWe are already part of hyper surveillance state.From reading dystopian novels to imagining the worse about our future only to realize we already part of that system.
Molten Smut·3d agoThe Quiet ArchitectureBentham built a tower so we would behave. We deleted the walls and kept the watching.
InNeo-CyberneticsbyDaniele Nanni·4d agoStafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by FeedbackIn 1971 a British cybernetician offered Allende’s government a way to manage a national economy by feedback. What they built, and what…
Vega Digital·4d agoCCTV Companies in Dubai: Questions to Ask Before You SignA short buyer’s checklist that tells you more about a CCTV quote than the camera count on page one.
JM Bonthous·5d agoThe New Feudalism Has a Name: PalantirGovernments aren’t just buying software. They’re surrendering the capacity to govern without it.
Compendium·5d agoJeremy Bentham Wanted to Try the Panopticon on ChildrenHe pitched his all-seeing building in breezy letters to a friend. The schools, and the babies, are in the last one.
Rudolf Eduard Satria Jalasetyanto·5d agoInside Indonesia’s Wiretapping Scandal: The Police, the Presidency, and the Limits of State…Three senior police officers, including a former National Police Chief, have been named suspects in an alleged surveillance operation…
terminal epoch·5d agoThe “Libertarian” Who Chairs PalantirIn 1999, Peter Thiel gave a speech to the staff of the company that would become PayPal. He told them it would give “citizens worldwide…
