Tag: surveillance
Report: Israeli Soldiers Are Snatching Palestinians’ Phones and Punishing Them for Having Photos of Gaza
by Daisy Schofield
Novara FM: The Art of the Psyop
Analysis: Automated Policing Helped Kill Chris Kaba
by Griff Ferris
Report: Israel is Losing the Misinformation War
by Hamza Ali Shah
Opinion: I’m a Therapist, Not a Cop
by Erene Hadjiioannou
Long Read: How We Won: The Activist Deceived By a Spycop Who Took on the Met
by Alex D King
Report: Amazon’s ‘Total-Surveillance’ Supermarkets Have Arrived
by Sophie K Rosa
The Bastani Factor: Will Amazon Fresh Kill the High Street? | the Bastani Factor
Amazon already dominates online retail, but is it set to take over the high street? Last month, Jeff Bezos’ trillion-dollar company opened the UK’s first Amazon Fresh store, stocked with own brand groceries, including milk and meat, and cashiers replaced by an entirely automated process. Aaron Bastani visited the store in Ealing, West London, to […]
Explainers: Is Your Boss Spying On You?
Report: Paranoid Bosses Are Spying on Workers During the Pandemic
by Rivkah Brown
Novara FM: Taking the Red Pill with Hari Kunzru
The Bastani Factor: Control, Power and Resistance in the 21st Century. Interview With Cory Doctorow
What is the relationship between technology, society and politics? Is the former merely a tool for social control, or can it also open up new vistas of possibility and freedom? How can one become the other, and what does resistance look like in a world where culture, and digital culture, are increasingly constitutive of one […]
Analysis: Why the Decline of High Street Retail Could Have Troubling Consequences for Our Freedom
by Alan Bradshaw
Coronavirus is killing the high street, further accelerating us into a world of big data and algorithm-mediated shopping. Alan Bradshaw argues the shift could have dangerous political implications, allowing corporations to structure and rationalise our lives in previously unimagined ways.