Contemporary life is interwoven with surveillance. Gadgets and applications are increasingly being developed and used for tracking, quantifying, and documenting everyday life activities. State surveillance is now merely one example of the multifaceted forms of contemporary surveillance practices. Our current culture of surveillance is rather diverse and concerns relations between the public authorities and citizens, […]
In the second part of this extended interview with Real Media, Professor Bev Skeggs speaks about surveillance capitalism. With the fast roll-out of "pre-emptive surveillance" gadgets, the internet of things, and wearable tech, we are entering an age where huge non-transparent corporations, paying little or no tax, are supplying information to employers and insurance companies […]
Matt and Rebecca escape to Hawaii from the safe house with Stephen Sharer to find out that he actually followed and tracked them there. Before that Rebecca was Hypnotized by the Game Master to jump into a pool from 45 ft overnight. Then Matt found that the hypnotist was actually working for the GM. So […]
| Many national security experts argue that lawful surveillance activities, such as those authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), are necessary to protect the national security of the United States. In this Fourth Branch video, Matthew Heiman takes a deep dive into this issue from the national security perspective. To understand the full […]
China has been building what it calls "the world's biggest camera surveillance network". Across the country, 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and an estimated 400 million new ones will be installed in the next three years. Many of the cameras are fitted with artificial intelligence, including facial recognition technology. The BBC's John […]
