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Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure

Not all innovation deserves to exist — many surveillance and policing technologies should never have been created in the first place

5 min readJun 17, 2020

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Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure

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How ‘Smart Tech’ Masks an Emerging Era of Corporate Control

‘Smart tech’ is a buzzword that’s been applied to everything from toothbrushes to TVs — and the cute marketing helps hide what’s really…

11 min readMar 9, 2020

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It’s Time to Bring Back the Government’s Expert Tech Policy Unit

An Office of Technology Assessment could defuse the techlash, but it must engage its public and resist being hijacked by corporate interests

7 min readNov 8, 2019

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Privacy Is Just the Beginning of the Debate Over Tech

Controversial ‘smart locks’ show the way that surveillance tech begins with the poor, before spreading to the rest of us

6 min readJun 6, 2019

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Landlord 2.0: Tech’s New Rentier Capitalism

By selling us hardware but retaining ownership of software and data, tech companies are treating users like digital tenants

6 min readApr 4, 2019

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Startups Want to Disrupt Our Cities

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs won’t be the last corporate attempt to gain power over urban infrastructure

9 min readOct 18, 2018

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Startups Want to Disrupt Our Cities

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Jathan Sadowski

Jathan Sadowski

author — TOO SMART: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World — https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/too-smart

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