The Authoritarian Stack
Unsettling data viz and reporting on how billionaires with state-like powers are building a fully privatized "regime where corporate boards, not public law, set the rules."
Tag: surveillance
Find My Friends & Other Location Sharing Apps Can Ruin Relationships
"Apps like Find My have normalized location-sharing, but keeping tabs on someone doesn’t always keep them close."
Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing | by Clive Thompson
Thieves of experience: On the rise of surveillance capitalism
Pretty thorough review of Shoshana Zuboff’s new book. Key idea is the “extraction imperative” that drives Google, Facebook, etc.
Thieves of experience: On the rise of surveillance capitalism
Pretty thorough review of Shoshana Zuboff’s new book. Key idea is the “extraction imperative” that drives Google, Facebook, etc.
Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along
Fascinating history of the Commodore 64, East Germany in the 80s, and the surveillance state.
Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along
Fascinating history of the Commodore 64, East Germany in the 80s, and the surveillance state.
Walmart’s Patent for a Biometric-Enhanced Cart
Walmart just patented a procedure for capturing customer health data via shopping cart handles. No way this data could be misused, no-sir.
Walmart’s Patent for a Biometric-Enhanced Cart
Walmart just patented a procedure for capturing customer health data via shopping cart handles. No way this data could be misused, no-sir.
PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”
PYMK: A Controversial Facebook Feature’s 10-Year History
Facebook’s People You May Know “mines information users don’t have control over to make connections they may not want it to make.”