The problem was the expansion of the app's ambit from location-tracking for a misplaced or stolen mobile, to a full-fledged surveillance tool.

Surveillance can take on many forms, and they’re only getting more numerous. Governments, religions and social media can all lead to the feeling — or the reality — that we’re being watched, with ...

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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 ...

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If you have tips about DOGE and its data collection, you can contact Ian and Charlie on Signal at @ibogost.47 and @cwarzel.92. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. An ‘alphabet soup’ of databases, a digital surveillance dragnet, and forced searches of phones have empowered ...