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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

Jun 17, 2020

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

Jun 17, 2020

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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…

Mar 9, 2020

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

Mar 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

Nov 8, 2019

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

Nov 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

Jun 6, 2019

Privacy Is Just the Beginning of the Debate Over Tech

Jun 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

Apr 4, 2019

Landlord 2.0: Tech’s New Rentier Capitalism

Apr 4, 2019

Startups Want to Disrupt Our Cities

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

Oct 18, 2018

Startups Want to Disrupt Our Cities

Oct 18, 2018

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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