The U.S. border is no longer static and 'homeland security' no longer stays in the homeland: it’s mobile, it’s rapid, and it's international. Todd Miller exposes the growing border-security complex.
In the rush to spread the information revolution, digital development agendas pose an increasing threat to privacy. But are they also unknowingly facilitating new surveillance capabilities?
As David Miranda's recent detention illustrates, where states once introduced exceptional legislative measures in times of crisis, the law has now been rendered an instrument for a permanent state of war.
Will drones be added to the arsenal of tools available in humanitarian and peacekeeping operations?
Forget blood diamonds. There's a new resource being mined and exploited in the developing world: data.
Behind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business selling surveillance technologies - and stay apathetic to the consequences.
At least at first, freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The author is convinced that the freedom risk is the most fragile among the global risks we have experienced so far. He calls for a digital humanism.
What if your country begins to change and nobody notices? As the weaponry and technology of war came home, so did a new, increasingly Guantanamo-ized definition of justice. This is one thing the Bradley Manning case has made clear.
It hardly matters under what label - including American “safety” and “security” - such a governing power is built; sooner or later, the architecture will determine the acts, and it will become more tyrannical at home and more extreme abroad. Thank your lucky stars that Edward Snowden made the choi
