Who Is Watching You?

The tech industry is about to get a lot worse

Whether you live in the United States or not, this week’s election is going to have rippling effects on the tech industry for years to come. Under the incoming administration, I expect a massive erosion in privacy, an increase in surveillance capitalism, a massive rollback of environmental protections, and the widespread destruction of inclusive norms. Keep your eyes open. At work, right now, a lot of the people you work with are going to be hurting badly (you might be one of them.

Regulators: who watches the watchers?

"Who watches the watchers?" is a phrase we hear a great deal but, in these dystopian times, one to which we should perhaps pay more heed

How does it feel to be watched at work all the time?

Many more firms are monitoring and analysing employee communications and behaviour. Does it work?

Opinion | We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong (Published 2018)

The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not.

Vigilantism comes for Flock

More Americans than ever are destroying Flock license plate cameras amid rising backlash against the company. Is the tide turning on intrusive U.S. mass surveillance, and where does the privacy fight go next?

Tidying Up When We Have No Control over Our Digital Lives

Never-ending notifications. Pull-to-refresh rewards. There's no escape from surveillance capitalism.

Tech's Elite Hates Labor

I am furious. Though I try not to humour conspiracy theories, or suggest that there is any grand overture to what is usually an uncaring and cold world, but I cannot ignore what is a transparently-synchronized movement against the tech industry’s workforce.

The Internet is a surveillance state | CNN

Bruce Schneier says our surveillance state is efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell, and consumers are given little chance to opt out

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit

The story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world

How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce

The retail giant is always watching.

Hope in Common

We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its former self. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation […]

Brokers use ‘billions’ of data points to profile Americans

U.S. agency cites danger of errors, abuse as firms create labels based on race, income and religious beliefs

Gazing Back at the Surveillance Cameras That Watch Us (Published 2018)

These photographers explored the implications of a culture of pervasive monitoring.