Analysis: Automated Policing Helped Kill Chris Kaba
by Griff Ferris
The unarmed Black man was fatally shot by police after an automated system linked his vehicle to a previous incident.
Tag: surveillance
Report: Israel is Losing the Misinformation War
by Hamza Ali Shah
Israel’s hundred years’ war on Palestine has been bolstered by a sophisticated campaign of lies. The old tools may not work for much longer, reports Hamza Ali Shah.
Opinion: I’m a Therapist, Not a Cop
by Erene Hadjiioannou
New government guidance is supposed to make it easier for victims to talk about their perpetrators' crimes in therapy. The catch? Prosecutors may be able to access their therapy notes.
Long Read: How We Won: The Activist Deceived By a Spycop Who Took on the Met
by Alex D King
An activist, with the help of other women who had been tricked into relationships with spycops, has achieved a landmark ruling that said the Met’s use of undercover police officers is a violation of human rights.
Report: Amazon’s ‘Total-Surveillance’ Supermarkets Have Arrived
by Sophie K Rosa
As Amazon quietly launches its chain of convenience stores in the UK, campaigners are keen to raise the alarm about what it could mean for our freedom.
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?
More than half of us think we’re being watched at work. We are, and we always have been.
Report: Paranoid Bosses Are Spying on Workers During the Pandemic
by Rivkah Brown
As home working has increased during the pandemic, so has worker surveillance. Rivkah Brown reports on the growing number of bosses now spying on their employees.
NovaraFM: Taking the Red Pill with Hari Kunzru
Hari Kunzru joins James Butler to discuss his new novel, Red Pill. They talk surveillance capitalism, neofascism, violence and breakdown.
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.
Black Britannia: There Is a Long, Racist History of State Surveillance of Black Communities
by Bryan Knight
At the height of the Black Power movement, fears over the activities of Black radical activists led the British state to undertake an extensive and covert surveillance mission, aimed at suppressing any challenges to its authority. In the second instalment of our series Black Britannia, Bryan Knight explores this period of heightened police surveillance and how it relates to our current political moment.
NovaraFM: A New Dark Age?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by James Bridle, to discuss the politics of technology, silicon prometheanism, how to think about the present – and why nothing seemed to happen after the Snowden leaks.
4 Reasons the Left Should Care About Data and Surveillance
by Tasmin Lockwood
Most people passively accept the collection, storage and sale of their data - after all, the government tells us mass surveillance makes us safer. But Tasmin Lockwood argues the left should take privacy more seriously and stop ignoring the dangers inherent in letting the state collect so much information about us.
Long Read: The Uses of Innocence: Terror, Surveillance and the Manchester Attack
by Clare Hymer and Eleanor Penny
The Manchester attack has widely been framed as an attack on innocence. But rather than protecting children, the government’s response to the bombing smacks of a cynical attempt to weaponise the victims' innocence for the purposes of racist nation-building.