Privacy may be dead, but civilians are turning conventional wisdom on its head by surveilling the cops as much as the cops ...

People want to turn the government's surveillance state back on itself - but how do they do that and keep their neighbors ...

Author Michael Steinberger talks about "The Philosopher in the Valley," which explores the world of Palantir CEO Alex Karp and one of Silicon Valley's most powerful surveillance companies.

Since the start of the second Trump administration, there's been open debate about whether the United States is descending into a modern high-tech surveillance state. But is there any truth to that?

Nearly all the cameras installed in Nepal are now made by Chinese companies and many come with facial recognition and AI tracking software.

US Representative Warren Davidson warns the US is drifting toward a permissioned and heavily surveilled financial system, arguing that recent crypto legislation undermines the industry’s original ...

The Surveillance State is making a naughty list, and we’re all on it. Unlike Santa’s naughty list, however, the consequences of landing on the government’s “naughty list” are far more severe than a ...

In the race among U.S. law enforcement agencies to be the snoopiest, most intrusive, and greatest threat to privacy, it's really hard to score the players. To a great extent, that's because the ...

There is growing public awareness about the scope of China’s surveillance and repression activities in Xinjiang, but its scale continues to defy the imagination. Yet these reports fail to convey the ...

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For generations, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” has been treated as a playful reminder to children to be good because someone, somewhere, is watching.

You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout, you’d better not cry, cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter ...