Tag results for: surveillance
Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown
Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies...
Seeking Psychedelics? Check the Data Privacy Clause
Next week, Coloradans will vote on a ballot initiative that, if approved, would create a regulated market for psilocybin in the state. Under this initiative, called Proposition 122,...
What It Means to ‘Feel Normal’ Online
Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are responding with a...
The Signal for Help I Created Went Viral. Now It Could Be Misused
In 2020, I helped create the Signal for Help, a hand signal that communicates to friends, family, and bystanders that “I need you to check in on me...
How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech
Even if you trust a handful of teachers or counselors, remember that your activity could be seen by other adults in the school, or even law enforcement. Don’t...
Are You Sure You Know What Revenge Porn Is?
Last month, local television station NY1 fired meteorologist Erick Adame after images of him from nude webcam sites leaked and were sent anonymously to his employer (and mother).The...
