Art
So you've covered up your laptop camera, switched to the anonymous web browser Tor, and removed your cell phone battery to thwart tracking — and you're still vulnerable to the prying eyes of Big Brother and friends.
Art
Laura Poitras is an excellent filmmaker.
Art
LONDON — Presiding over a busy University College London corridor is a man who's been dead for over 180 years.
Art
In 1867 Timothy O’Sullivan headed out West.
News
“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.
Art
How much time would you say you spend on your phone each day? How frequently do you post updates to your social media accounts? How much do the unread notifications on your phone bother you?
News
The New York Police Department (NYPD) wants to regain the trust of the New Yorkers it alienated with recent controversies like “Stop-and-Frisk” and the killing of Eric Garner.
In Brief
If The Wire ran on television today, one of the characters would probably be an Instagram officer.
Art
If you want to know where Hasan Elahi is, just check his website.
Art
This is going to sound absurd, but: who watches the watchers of the watchmen?
Art
New York-based artist Paolo Cirio is chastening key NSA, CIA, and FBI officials involved in the agencies' surveillance programs by finding and disseminating across the world snapshots of them in informal or intimate contexts.
Interview
On Friday artists Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider walked away from We Are Always Listening (WAAL), a National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, DIY surveillance program, satirical prank, or new media art project, depending on your interpretation.