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Surveillance State

Data brokers, biometric systems, sensor networks, digital identity and public-private monitoring infrastructure.

Who sees, scores and stores the public record of everyday life?

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Five Eyes Domestic Surveillance intelligence sharing network

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Five Eyes at Home: How Intelligence Sharing Bypassed National Privacy Limits

Five Eyes Domestic Surveillance examines how intelligence-sharing agreements allowed agencies to access foreign-collected data about their own citizens.

Data Broker Surveillance State surveillance network map

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Data Broker Surveillance State: How The U.S. Built A Warrant-Free Tracking Market

The Data Broker Surveillance State shows how U.S. agencies purchased commercial location and behavioural data, creating surveillance outside traditional warrant rules.

1990s The Internet Era

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1990s — The Internet Era

1990s - The Internet Era — The 1990s are remembered as the decade the world went online. That is true, but incomplete.

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2 filesThe Power Timeline

ThemeDigital identity

ThemeData brokerage

ThemeBiometric infrastructure

ThemeSmart-city monitoring

ThemeIntelligence sharing

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1970s Surveillance ArchitecturePublished investigation

Digital ID & Programmable Money: Building the Global Control GridPublished investigation

How Smart Cities Became Control CitiesPublished investigation

China’s Surveillance Grid Before COVID: The Roots of Digital AuthoritarianismPublished investigation

Pandemic Surveillance and the New NormalPublished investigation

Amazon’s Secret Surveillance Deals: Ring, Rekognition & Government ContractsPublished investigation

Metadata in Schools: How Student Data Powers a Hidden AgendaPublished investigation

Soft Control: Huxley’s Algorithm and the New Surveillance PlaybookPublished investigation

Surveillance State Mind Control: Anatomy of Modern Behavioral ManipulationPublished investigation

Digital ID: The Seductive Convenience That Could End PrivacyPublished investigation

Predictive Policing: How AI Criminalizes Intent Before a Crime ExistsPublished investigation

Total Information Awareness: The Precursor to Today’s Surveillance StatePublished investigation

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