Technology

Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?

Biometrics

Increasingly, biometric systems are at the center of the security-technology complex and at the nexus of a state’s apparatus of surveillance and control.

Social Media

On social media, millions of regular citizens have a voice. So do paid trolls and government propagandists.

Surveillance

Today’s most innovative police states owe more to Mark Zuckerberg than to Joseph Stalin.