surveillance

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

• By David M. Perry

A recent decision by the Court is a win for Fourth Amendment advocates, but there are still many avenues for law enforcement to track Americans without a warrant online.

• By Robyn Greene & Michael Pizzi

The Trump administration has directed funds originally intended to counter radicalization—including white nationalist violence—toward the targeted surveillance of Muslim communities.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Amazon, one of many tech companies that have called for reform of government surveillance, is selling facial recognition services to cops.

• By Kate Wheeling

It runs by its own rules and its proceedings are kept secret, but we know the fundamentals of how the court was conceived and how it functions.

• By Lacey Wallace

The bill is pending Trump's expected approval.

• By Candace Butera

The House voted Thursday to renew a surveillance program without adding protections for Americans whose data is inadvertently collected without a warrant.

• By Kate Wheeling

Amazon Echo is always listening. Amazon Key invites companies into your home. But who exactly is surveilling whom?

• By Katie Fustich

The most important reads from our coverage of black markets, tech surveillance, and more.

• By Max Ufberg

China is reportedly importing technology from a company headquartered in the U.S. to surveil supposed subversives in Xinjiang.

• By Massoud Hayoun

After the attack on Sunday night, decision-makers on the Strip will need to consider what new policies they must implement to keep visitors safe.

• By Laura Bliss

Investigators obtained a secret court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to surveil Paul Manafort in 2016 as part of the FBI's investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

• By Kate Wheeling

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

• By David M. Perry

The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.

• By Julia Angwin

Officials are again pointing to the need for mass surveillance to take down terrorists. Here’s what we know about how well it works.

• By Lauren Kirchner

A library in a small New Hampshire town started to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor. Until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag.

• By Julia Angwin

In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are still some things you can do to keep your communications private—and not all of it is high-tech.

• By Julia Angwin

The Obama administration has stepped up the National Security Agency's surveillance program on U.S. soil to search for signs of hacking.

• By Julia Angwin & Jeff Larson

An incident at a Texas pool party puts the psychology of surveillance to the test.

• By Jared Keller

Nothing to see over here! Just an innocent saguaro! Yeah, right.

• By Francie Diep

After Edward Snowden, the government said its controversial surveillance programs had stopped a terrorist—David Coleman Headley. The claim is largely untrue.

• By Sebastian Rotella

Research shows that “feeling safe” is highly subjective.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The British government's demand that physical computers be destroyed is both nonsensical and ruthless—and that’s what makes it so disturbing.

• By Jared Keller

The latest Pew survey shows that a majority of people actually approve of mass surveillance.

• By Gregory Ferenstein