Surveillance articles
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How to escape the surveillance state: Building your own server
Another day, another successful de-platforming campaign, but when the Internet Archive purges its eponymous cache of the offending texts, a different kind of slight on one's natural rights is taking place.In the first instance, those who own or otherwise control the machines that serve up the apparition unmistakably have the moral and legal right to kick out a guest, though naturally subject to rights under an orderly eviction. In the second case, ostensibly professional archivist organizations...
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A look back on mass surveillance during the Covid crisis
In March 2020, France was one of the countries that adopted the strictest lockdown measures in an attempt to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. The historian and sociologist Nicolas Mariot looks back at this experiment in mass obedience.
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The NSA Wants Carte Blanche for Warrantless Surveillance
James Bamford If the Senate passes an expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, any American’s international communications could become an open book.