Fitbits for Bosses: The Future of Workplace Surveillance
Sep 18, 2015 If the thought of hidden cameras in the office and employee activity-monitoring software weren't dystopian enough, digital Big Brother is now expanding into the world of workplace biosurveillance.
Chinese Scratch Heads After ‘V for Vendetta’ Airs
Dec 21, 2012 China’s state television network broadcast the anti-authoritarian movie that has become a symbol in the West of anarchic uprising against oppressive or totalitarian governments.
High Insecurity in the Police State
Nov 1, 2012 Anna Minton took a tour of an East London housing estate that received a Secured by Design award for its “small windows, reinforced steel doors and grey, aluminium, military-style roofs. The overall effect,” she says of results that will be published in a forthcoming report, “was oppressive.”
Big Brother Gets Established in NYC
Aug 9, 2012 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly on Wednesday revealed that for the last six months the city has been monitoring its residents via a network of roughly 3,000 closed circuit television cameras that feed into NYPD headquarters. The technology is termed the “Domain Awareness System.”
Who Wants to Be a Big Brother?
Dec 5, 2009 With 4.2 million surveillance cameras in Britain and not enough people to observe them all, a company called Internet Eyes has come up with a solution: reward volunteer "spies" with cash prizes to watch streaming camera footage and blow the whistle on evildoers.
