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Surveillance
Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Offers a Blueprint for Fighting Authoritarianism
Hyper-criminalized migrant sex workers show us how everyday people evade, defy and resist state control and punishment.
ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Its Already Vast Surveillance Apparatus
ICE is investing massive sums in facial recognition, data surveillance, e-carceration and other repressive technologies.
Surveillance Is Intimidation: Ronan Farrow Reveals Secrets of High-Tech Spyware
Farrow warns that a growing number of democratic nations are using and abusing surveillance technology.
Trump’s Next Term Could See Massive Expansion of ICE’s Surveillance Regime
Private prison companies have been quietly lobbying to place millions of immigrants under electronic surveillance.
China’s Ties With Israel Are Hindering the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
China is pushing a flawed peace process while deepening economic ties with Israel.
New Film Documents the Struggle and Triumph of Amazon Labor Union
Union leader Chris Smalls and the film’s co-director discuss the union’s fight against the richest man in the world.
Communication Crackdown in Federal Prisons Has Been Operating Quietly Until Now
“Double contact bans” disrupt the means by which prisoners may assert their rights and dissent to their treatment.
Critics Say Info Provided to GOP-Proposed Pregnancy Database Could Be Weaponized
Yet in many ways, abortion surveillance is already here, experts say.
Documents Expose How DC Police Surveil Protest Activity, Social Media Profiles
Numerous emails reflect how DC police deploy powerful tools to track individual organizers.
House Dems Team Up With GOP to Expand Warrantless Spying on Americans
The bill, which critics call the largest expansion of state surveillance since the Patriot Act, now heads to the Senate.