On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country’s ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to ...

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The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. is a news writer who ...

In a move that’s absolutely based as fuck, Austin Lunn is putting his money where his mouth is and using a vast majority of the funds generated by the sale of a new EP from Panopticon to help poeple ...

Since 2007, Austin Lunn’s much-praised atmospheric black metal project Panopticon has plied its trade in searing meditations on everything from environmentalism, to the Appalachian coal mining ...

Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and control without direct surveillance. Explore the impact of industrialization ...

Hold onto your butts, ladies and gentlemen. One of the more interesting and exciting acts in modern black metal is about to hit the scene with a one-two punch, as Panopticon announced that we’ll all ...

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