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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

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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

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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

x-ray of hand with RFID chip implanted

Microchips in humans: consumer-friendly app, or new frontier in surveillance?

By Ahmed Banafa | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Exterior of Supreme Court building.

After Roe’s overturn: the abortion surveillance state

By Carrie N. Baker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Supporters of US President Donald Trump, including member of the QAnon conspiracy group Jake A, aka Yellowstone Wolf (C), enter the US Capitol on Wednesday. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Instead of reforming Facebook, should we just build something else?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies