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11:23
Sharon Weinberger
Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech
Posted
Dec 2020
12:49
Kade Crockford
What you need to know about face surveillance
Posted
May 2020
10:00
Tamas Kocsis
The case for a decentralized internet
Posted
Nov 2018
9:05
Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu
What your smart devices know (and share) about you
Posted
Jul 2018
16:20
Madhumita Murgia
How data brokers sell your identity
Posted
May 2018
9:33
Marta Peirano
The surveillance device you carry around all day
Posted
May 2018
14:25
Jennifer Granick
How the US government spies on people who protest — including you
Posted
Aug 2017
7:44
Christopher Soghoian
Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
Posted
Oct 2016
11:56
Rebecca MacKinnon
We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
Posted
Sep 2016
5:13
Trevor Timm
How free is our freedom of the press?
Posted
May 2016
9:28
Rodrigo Bijou
Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers
Posted
Dec 2015
12:56
Mathias Jud
Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies
Posted
Oct 2015
6:16
Christopher Soghoian
How to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket
Posted
Aug 2015
9:22
Trevor Aaronson
How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
Posted
Jun 2015
12:09
Andy Yen
Think your email's private? Think again
Posted
Mar 2015
5:54
Catherine Crump
The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
Posted
Dec 2014
20:37
Glenn Greenwald
Why privacy matters
Posted
Oct 2014
19:34
Hubertus Knabe
The dark secrets of a surveillance state
Posted
Aug 2014
6:44
Stanley McChrystal
The military case for sharing knowledge
Posted
May 2014
33:30
Richard Ledgett
The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
Posted
Mar 2014
35:02
Edward Snowden
Here's how we take back the Internet
Posted
Mar 2014
8:18
Christopher Soghoian
Government surveillance — this is just the beginning
Posted
Mar 2014
19:18
Mikko Hypponen
How the NSA betrayed the world's trust — time to act
Posted
Nov 2013
19:25
Marc Goodman
A vision of crimes in the future
Posted
Jul 2012
9:23
Mikko Hypponen
Three types of online attack
Posted
Jan 2012
14:30
Hasan Elahi
FBI, here I am!
Posted
Oct 2011
14:52
Rebecca MacKinnon
Let's take back the Internet!
Posted
Jul 2011
19:33
Julian Assange
Why the world needs WikiLeaks
Posted
Jul 2010
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