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

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 ...

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 ...

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?

US Representative Warren Davidson warns the GENIUS Act could enable a wholesale CBDC, while digital IDs may control Americans ...

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

Leo Selvaggio, “URME Surveillance” (2014) (all images courtesy the artist) The second, and more central to my work, is that it fails to consider the social component of surveillance, by which I mean ...

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 ...

A slogan board stands in front of the US Capitol during a protest against government surveillance in Washington, D.C., on October 26, 2013. (Fang Zhe / Xinhua via Getty) By signing up, you confirm ...

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 ...

This article was first published in the January 2016 issue of WIRED magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional ...

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 ...