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    You’re already living in a surveillance society — even your neighbor's doorbell is watching you. We'll tell you what you can do about it. Sign up for our limited-run newsletter.

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  2. "Our actual loss of privacy will eventually be dated to before 2019, but that was the year we shed our naivety about the scale of the loss," writes in

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  3. In , writes: "The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of ubiquitous government surveillance."

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  4. "Even as the messianic confidence that characterized Silicon Valley philosophizing in the ’90s and ’00s has curdled, the religious faith in technological inevitability has remained," writes in

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  5. “It’s hard to get ready to comply when you don’t know what you’re getting ready to comply with," five ad sector trade groups wrote in a letter, reports in

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  6. "When it comes to animals, there may well be harm done when they are watched too closely," writes in

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  7. "'Competition and privacy are often at odds,' Mr. Phillips said in prepared remarks," reports in

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  8. "As browsers increasingly diverge in their approaches, it's clear that not all privacy protections are created equal," writes in

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  9. "National criminal defense and civil liberties experts say the audio recordings pass into untested and concerning legal territory," reports in

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  10. "NtechLab’s CEO Alex Minin told The Verge over email that the deployment was one of the biggest ever," reports in

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  11. From the newsroom: "The privacy settlement coincides with heightened public concern over the spread of powerful surveillance technology like facial recognition," and report.

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  12. "I suspect that many Londoners feel torn: should safety take priority over privacy? And if so, where do you draw the line in a world where 'normal' surveillance cameras (those without AI) are already filming us all the time?" writes in .

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  13. "Throughout the experience, digital portals open. Stepping inside them triggers explanations about how all these devices leave behind a trail of data that companies and others can exploit to their own ends," writes in

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  14. "It’s easy to get conspiratorial and to fall comfortably into black and white notions of good versus evil," writes . But 's "Uncanny Valley" is "a reminder that the reality is far more muddled but no less damning."

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  15. "The city has its own network of about 700 closed-circuit cameras, and in May is expected to allow a private company to start flying three surveillance planes over Baltimore," reports in

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  16. "Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said facial recognition software like Clearview adds 'jet fuel' to the department’s ability to identify and locate suspects," reports in

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  17. "It’s not unthinkable that future apps might tell schools more about students’ behavior, and that it may become harder to say no," writes in

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  18. From the newsroom: "As people have begun carrying more and more of their personal and professional lives on their phones, an industry has sprung up to sell tools to get that information," writes

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  19. "This unfathomable bounty of information will likely give plenty of Facebook users a cold, edifying shock—if they can find it. But it is not a service, really," writes in

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  20. "Despite its legal woes, Clearview continues to contradict itself," , and write in

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  21. A tech memoir takes readers behind the surveillance economy. "What looks from the outside like a conspiracy or nefarious techno-authoritarianism is often confusion caused by poor management, poor communication and dizzying growth," writes.

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