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Shari Steele on Digital Privacy and Tackling Harassment at Tor

The Internet privacy pioneer discusses the challenge of making a secure Web browser more accessible, harassment scandals, and why you should be more concerned about your privacy online.

Sarah Scoles

Economics

How to Keep the Internet of Things From Killing Us All

Author Bruce Schneier warns about the coming hyper-networked world where all your devices are talking to each other.

David M. Perry

Social Justice

Your Pills Are Spying on You

How smart pills and surveillance capitalism threaten civil rights.

David M. Perry

A marketing gimmick at this year's conference of the National Restaurant Association.

Economics

The ‘Internet of Restaurants’ Is Coming for Your Info

At the National Restaurant Association, many of the hot technology companies are selling surveillance, not supper.

David M. Perry

News in Brief

The Impending Crisis of the Internet of Things

Huge security flaws are being ignored by manufacturers—and are not easy to fix. By Rick Paulas (Photo: smoothgroover22/Flickr)…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

We Can’t Let Our Toasters Become Smarter Than We Are

On the promises and perils of the Internet of Things. By Jason Hong Ji Young-Hoon controls an electronic…

Pacific Standard Staff

Environment

Facebook Would Like a Monopoly on Your Entire Life

What do we stand to lose when we gain big convenient platforms?

Susie Cagle

Economics

Boom & Bust: From Bitcoin to Bike Share, the Biggest Booms and Busts of the Past Year

After a week of reporting and writing on booms and busts—everything from the economy of big oil boomtowns to the growth of the mental-health counseling field—Jamie Wiebe considers five of the biggest booms—and five of the biggest busts—of the past year.

Jamie Wiebe