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The walls have eyes: How Trump plans to supercharge border security with tech

By Petra Molnar | Disruptive Technologies

Another year, another 366 days of tech (with a healthy dose of AI)

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

Illustration of a big eye watching over protestors

How AI surveillance threatens democracy everywhere

By Abi Olvera | Disruptive Technologies

A sequence of frames from video of the Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast on February 4, 2023.

Cybersecurity, surveillance, and military retaliation: Why some balloons bust–and others don’t

By Kathryn Hedgecock, Lauren Sukin | Disruptive Technologies

How emerging technology is shaping the future of intelligence.

Disruptive technologies in 2022

By Sara Goudarzi | Disruptive Technologies

The eight best Bulletin magazine articles of 2022

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis

The Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang. Credit: Alexander Flühmann via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

China’s high-tech surveillance drives oppression of Uyghurs

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

one-woman protest outside old KGB headquarters, Moscow

“When it comes to Russia, it’s like living in a volcano” — Interview with Farida Rustamova, an independent reporter in Putin’s Russia

By Dan Drollette Jr | Interviews

Spy Booth Banksy street art

Introduction: The brave new world of the high-tech surveillance state

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Creating a model democratic alternative to the surveillance state

By Ishan Sharma | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

binoculars with exaggerated eyeballs in place of lenses

Smart devices, cell phone cameras, social shaming. and the loss of the right to a private self: Interview with Michel Paradis

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

barbed wire and closed-circuit TV camera

The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics