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Digital privacy
July 18, 2024
Edith Olmsted
J.D. Vance’s Venmo Offers Shocking Look Into Trump V.P.’s Inner Circle
Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick left his Venmo account public, and it shows close ties to many on the far right, including one of the people behind Project 2025.
May 10, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Why Trump Keeps Changing His Opinion About TikTok
Allies of the Republican presidential nominee are increasingly involved with the Chinese media industry.
April 22, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Blames Wrong Person for Trying to Cause TikTok’s Downfall
The former president suddenly seems to have amnesia about his previous stance on TikTok.
May 12, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Congress May Hand Bill Barr the Keys to Your Online Life
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.
May 4, 2020
Magazine
Rachel Riederer
How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
Our digital dependency has created a privacy crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced a reckoning.
April 9, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Socially Distanced Protester
The challenges of collective action under lockdown
September 17, 2019
Adam Weinstein
Edward Snowden’s Novel Makeover
How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero
May 30, 2019
Lizzie O'Shea
Digital Privacy Is a Class Issue
As corporations mine data and monetize the web, the divide between rich and poor on the Internet grows wider.
March 23, 2018
Matt Ford
Congress may have just nixed a Supreme Court case on digital privacy.
February 28, 2018
Matt Ford
The Court and the Cloud
The Supreme Court wrestles with how to apply U.S. laws to international tech companies.
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